Subj : Notions about today's Daily Wisdom
To   : All
From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Sun Jun 10 2001 11:31 pm

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          "If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind,
            Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
  
                          - Albert Einstein.
  
                           From: Ami & Raija Shachar, Tel-Aviv ISRAEL

Robin:     I LOVE this! Lately we have been deluged with statements 
        that we need to be orderly, even to be worthy of Feng Shui, 
        or by Suze Orman, that one feels like a mortal sinner if he 
        or she is not up to this standard! What a burden!
            As a fellow Pisces, I share Einstein's view. As a messy 
        kind of guy, I can't help it. I love it!
            Who dares to impose his or her view on the rest of us, 
        that we should all be neat and orderly?
            But, more to the point, it is not in orderliness that 
        genius is found. It is in the synthesis of much, chaos 
        included, that something 'new' and wonderful is given birth.
            We can draw from the infinite, unless we try to make it 
        finite.
            We drink from the eternal, till we decide our cup is too 
        full.
            So, to try to organize and regiment the aliveness of the 
        cosmos, to make it fit into a mold, a human sense of order, 
        makes the vastness into something we can understand. But our 
        understanding is so little, and that we seek to know so 
        large....
            There is an old fable...St. Jerome was walking on a beach 
        struggling to comprehend the idea of the Holy Trinity. He met
        a child there who was taking a pail and going from the beach 
        to the ocean, filling it with water, and pouring the water 
        into a hole. Jerome asked the child "What are you doing?" 
             The child said, "I intend to put the whole ocean in my 
        hole in the sand." 
             Jerome said, "That's impossible, see how vast is the 
        sea, and see how small is the hole into which you are pouring
        the water!" 
             The child replied, "But you are trying to put the great 
        mystery of the Trinity into a form your mind can contain. 
        Don't you see this is the same?"
            So, our minds are not the vehicles to contain what is 
        beyond them. Sometimes, we need only let what is be what it is.
            There is a great peace in letting go.
 
 

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