WOW! This is great. So much truth. I laughed twice! The symphony of Cellos under the full moon. So true! The zither being made from the shipwrecked board that saved the shipwrecked! Absolutely! That reminded me of the haunting ballad “the two sisters”. The group Pentangle has an incredible version of it. I think Jerry Garcia recorded it too.
Anyway, “When you no longer look to the immortal world, and look instead to the mortal one, the world becomes a world of communal need, rather than a world where every individual attempts to avoid the very fact of their needing.” This really hit me. As did the last line from the second to last paragraph. WOW! Thank you for blowing our minds every Sunday. They are an impermanent thing, your meditations, but man, I am grateful for them today!
" if we are paying attention — when the world reminds us that much of what we need is among us. We ask for the immortal world, but the mortal world is right here, and it is more beautiful because of its mortality." Ahh, those wonderful but transient moments which fill the heart up amidst the imperfections of us all. Thank you
I smiled at the confluence of poets, cellos, and moons -- and was so delighted to read of your novel. Many congratulations, Devin. I can't wait to read it!
Thank you for this beautiful reflection on being present, on the interconnectedness of all things, on living with a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity. It reminded me of this Mary Oliver quote from Upstream, and a reflection I wrote when I was reading it. I am going to leave that Peter Thiel essay for another day so as not to let it ruin my Sunday.
”Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else… Understand this from the first certainty. Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are. That they don’t know they are alive – that they don’t feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.”
Wow, Cass — what an absolute gem of a Mary Oliver passage! Thank you for it. And for reading. And yes…leave that Thiel essay for another day, maybe another century.
WOW! This is great. So much truth. I laughed twice! The symphony of Cellos under the full moon. So true! The zither being made from the shipwrecked board that saved the shipwrecked! Absolutely! That reminded me of the haunting ballad “the two sisters”. The group Pentangle has an incredible version of it. I think Jerry Garcia recorded it too.
Anyway, “When you no longer look to the immortal world, and look instead to the mortal one, the world becomes a world of communal need, rather than a world where every individual attempts to avoid the very fact of their needing.” This really hit me. As did the last line from the second to last paragraph. WOW! Thank you for blowing our minds every Sunday. They are an impermanent thing, your meditations, but man, I am grateful for them today!
Thank you so much, John! And thank you for this book! Love it dearly. I’ll have to listen to that song!
" if we are paying attention — when the world reminds us that much of what we need is among us. We ask for the immortal world, but the mortal world is right here, and it is more beautiful because of its mortality." Ahh, those wonderful but transient moments which fill the heart up amidst the imperfections of us all. Thank you
Thank you always for reading!
I smiled at the confluence of poets, cellos, and moons -- and was so delighted to read of your novel. Many congratulations, Devin. I can't wait to read it!
Ah, thank you, Roxani! Means the world! Appreciate you.
Wow this is some fantastic writing and I enjoyed reading this more than I’ve enjoyed reading anything in a great while.
thank you so much, Phillip
Thanks for sharing this lovely poem that inspires me to worship today, this Sunday, as the best of all days ❤️ 🙏
Thank you! Appreciate you
Thank you for this beautiful reflection on being present, on the interconnectedness of all things, on living with a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity. It reminded me of this Mary Oliver quote from Upstream, and a reflection I wrote when I was reading it. I am going to leave that Peter Thiel essay for another day so as not to let it ruin my Sunday.
”Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else… Understand this from the first certainty. Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are. That they don’t know they are alive – that they don’t feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.”
https://cassf.substack.com/p/only-here-for-my-surface-interval
Wow, Cass — what an absolute gem of a Mary Oliver passage! Thank you for it. And for reading. And yes…leave that Thiel essay for another day, maybe another century.
thanks!
Thank you, Jesse