Presence

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! - Samuel Beckett

Borges

"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart,

I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat."
— Jorge Luis Borges

Saturday morning thought ...

apostles creed on Baybayin

Astounding to me, yet no longer surprising, are the lengths to which we humans will go to step outside of the complex yet simple experience of being human ... by creating systems of belief and worship, always with the promise of a better life, a truer meaning of life, the change of our lives.

Into what?

We reduce wonder into measurable creeds that we can export, call people to, and most importantly, sell, turn into profit. Doesn't matter what shape or color of religion, philosophy, metaphysical science, provable or speculative.

At what price do we trade the mystery of watching an ant scale a blade of grass?

~ zjm