A quote from the great Huston Smith.
"There is within us - even in the blithest, most lighthearted among us - a fundamental
dis-ease. This desire lies in the marrow of our bones and deep in the regions of our soul. All great literature, poetry, art, philosophy, psychology and religion tries to name and analyze this longing. We are seldom in direct touch with it, and indeed the modern world seems set on preventing us from getting in touch with it by covering it with entertainments, obsessions and distractions of every sort. But the longing is there, built into us like a jack-in-the-box that presses for release. Whether we realize it or not, simply to be human is to long for release from mundane existence with its confining walls o finitude and mortality.
The Good news. . .is that longing can be fulfilled!
John
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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3 comments:
Does he say how? ;-)
i always wondered about the frogs as well. i was hoping that i would uncover the truth while watching it with my adult brain. but i didn't even make it that far. i have decided to settle on the fact that it was some kind of amazingly strange coincidence, like a plane flying overhead carrying a million frogs accidentally dropped... all of them. the end.
I once had a really swell jack-in-the-box. It broke. Now I am very angry. I hate life.
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