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Infinite Worlds
“But it is the same with man as with the tree, The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep / into evil.” — Nietzsche.°
A person is both a unity and an opposition, so is a marriage and so are most social relationships as well…Each thing carries its own shadow and the inner oppositions in people repeatedly become reflected in outer conflicts that are even harder to get a handle on. Whatever we refuse to face within us will become a collective fate in the world around us. The wise come to know their own inner conflicts, while the unwise keep insisting that all the trouble is the fault of others.” — Michael Meade, “Fate and Destiny”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”― Carl Gustav Jung
We are dimly aware of the infinite kinds of beings around us, but there are probably as many kinds of worlds and universes we can’t see. We are locked into our concrete-looking paradigm. It seems we are meant to live out our dramas in a theater built to fool our senses into believing it’s all quite real.
But what’s real is in the intangibles like love, kindness and care. Those things actually have power. They can determine…
