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The Molecular Dance
We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.
— David Suzuki
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Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call it John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish — that’s tragic. But it’s only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of a dynamic process, a molecular dance, and made a separate entity out of it.
-Eckhart Tolle
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Joseph Campbell said something once along the lines that it is one thing to go on an adventure, but it might be even harder to make a return and bring something back.
— Jon Wilson
Yes, “returns” have a set of risks, including the possibility of being both weary and eager to be back, and therefore, not as alert and vigilant — nor as inclined to be alert and vigilant — about getting oneself, and whatever sort of “precious cargo” one might be “carrying,” back in one piece.
