1) If it happens that the human race doesn’t make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet. . . . We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned, and in the end the mystery is all there is. ~James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, pp 20-21, via JPC II
2) Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia . ~Charles Schultz, via April Eckman
Two different ways of looking from outside ourselves at ourselves . . . maybe enabling detachment to make new decisions. ~jpc
In but not of; not of but in. Namaste.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Radical Detachment
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Thank you, John. Kunstler quote is particularly appropriate at this time in history. JS Australia
As a followup to your radical detachment piece, the following verse was on the verse-of-the-day list I subscribe to:
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is
your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then
vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we
will live and do this or that."
-- James 4:14
I didn't remember ever reading that verse before.
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