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"goodness gracious me!"
- surviving a surprising story called Life
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FOR at least three decades I've been threatening to create a little book for
myself that would serve to re-mind me of what I've learnt – and am learning
– from Life. I'm a slow learner and my memory has a mind of its own. It
remembers what it wishes to and forgets the rest. And it's usually the
rest that is important to my sanity.
In hindsight it's obvious that those three decades were necessary in order to
even get close to what was important for me to understand and remember. It
took such a long time to understand the difference between concept and
Reality; to sort helpful concepts from red herrings; to find the right
questions and maintain a death-grip on their tails so they didn't slip back
into their black holes.
And it took a lifetime to understand myself – not according to the stories
others hold about me, but according to my own mix of pre-wired genetics and
life experience. Part of accepting what I am involved honoring my lifelong
preoccupation with wanting to know the Truth. Not the truth about
anything, but the Truth that never changes, the Truth that is the bedrock of
my being. This preoccupation has meant that most folk – including N&D –
have been at a loss to understand my life-path.
It would be fair to say that I've often been at a loss, as well.
I'm a question-mark on very small feet. Insatiably curious about everything, I
drove my family nuts with my "Yes, but . . ." responses. As I
matured, I came to understand that ingenuous curiosity is probably the key
catalyst for creativity.
Little by little I began to suspect that if the universe had a purpose it
would resemble a dynamic, unfolding question of infinite and
eternal proportions – a wondrous "What-if . . .?"
I envisioned creation as a woven web.
The warp? Wonder.
The weft? Wondering.
My little book is woven from the same threads. The chapters are formed by my
Seven Very Important Impossible Questions, and those questions fell – as
phenomena often do – into a trinity:
in-sourcing
in-seeing
in-being
When I began to write my list I was tickled to find that my questions fell
neatly under the number that turned out to offer a symbol, a hint or a
clue-cue to their meaning. Well goodness gracious me!
Apart from #ONE, there's no particular hierarchy or order of importance.
Everything
constellates around #ONE.
miriam louisa simons
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