The reason why our human cultures are unhealthy and unsustainable is precisely because the horse of cosmic law is stuck ramming his head into the back of our unreasonable, imbalanced and extremely overfilled carts.Īs it stands, we need to unlearn what our culture has conditioned into us, and relearn what it takes to get back into a healthy and sustainable balance with nature. This is tricky because we all too often place the cart of our cultural conditioning in front of the horse of cosmic law. What’s not so simple is paying close enough attention to the dictation of natural law so that our actions are in order with the cosmos. When we act in healthy ways, we experience healthy results. When it comes down to it, our health is dependent upon our actions. “Everyone is gifted, but most people never open their gift.” ~ The Buddha With them we can topple governments, we can count coup on tyranny, we can create poetry that breaks the heart and makes the spirit soar. With them we can imagine new imaginings we can capitalize upon them by rearranging them into novel constructs that create new worlds for new creating. Indeed, and the links between the function of thought and the habits of action are the mighty words of our language. Pierce surmised, “is to produce habits of action.” The “whole function of thought,” Charles S. Words are like hollow sentinels that form an army of imagery that dances across the reader’s/listener’s imagination tying knots into thoughts, portmanteaus into bon mots, until there is a web of life living, ever-so-shortly, in the span of a few words which are nothing more than squiggly marks on a page.Īnd yet they are so much more than that somehow, for they compel us to move, to realign, to refocus and evolve. If they don’t make sense, then there can be no imagery.Īnd if there is no imagery, then there can be no action. They are powerful beyond measure, and yet they are powerless unless we understand them. They are the invisible hat rack upon which we hang the infinite hats of our thoughts.

Words are the flagship symbols of human perception. “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” ~ Thoreau And it is only by deliberately paying our attention and our primary allegiance to eternity that we can prevent time from turning our lives into a pointless or diabolical foolery.” Watch your words, they become actions Like Aldous Huxley said, “It is only by taking the fact of eternity into account that we can deliver thought from its slavery of life. We must first be okay with being tiny cosmonauts in a giant cosmos, both literally and figuratively, so that we can eventually be okay with our words being fallible constructs springing from fallible thoughts. Our thoughts can only ever be rough drafts of what we’re perceiving, terse outlines of an unfathomably huge cosmos. “No philosophy,” William James asserted, “can ever be anything but a summary sketch, a picture of the world in abridgment, a foreshortened bird’s-eye view of the perspective of events.” So it goes also with our thoughts. Sometimes getting the horse back in front of the cart is as simple as clearing our minds ( the art of no-mind) so that our thoughts are clear enough to become words, while also being okay with the fact that we will never be completely clear on anything – quite the existential gamble. This seems simple, but sometimes it’s the little things, the basics, that prevent us from being clear with each other. But first our thoughts need to be clear enough to become words. The only way we can share these thoughts with each other is through words. Our brains are tiny galaxies going through the motion of creating a multitude of thoughts through the firing of billions of synapses. Our skulls are like little cul-de-sacs of thought just waiting to spring into words. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” ~ George OrwellĮvery single word originated from the fallibility of the human mind.

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