He said: Master, there are many around the drinking barrel, but there is nobody in the well. Saying 74, The Gospel of Thomas.
The spirit of this age consists both of inertia/stupor (we wish to make no move except to our next entertainment) and frenetic activity on the horizontal plane. Though we know we need to descend into our spiritual depths, we are hesitant, unwilling to do so.
We continue to oscillate between stupor and restless activity, half-hoping that someone else will bring us spiritual water to drink, water that impels us to go beyond the rigid bounds that mummify us in our self-created tomb of desiccation.
We must go into the Well ourselves, stop standing around the drinking barrel and take the leap. No one else can do it for us and Now is the only time there is.
The spirit of this age consists both of inertia/stupor (we wish to make no move except to our next entertainment) and frenetic activity on the horizontal plane. Though we know we need to descend into our spiritual depths, we are hesitant, unwilling to do so.
We continue to oscillate between stupor and restless activity, half-hoping that someone else will bring us spiritual water to drink, water that impels us to go beyond the rigid bounds that mummify us in our self-created tomb of desiccation.
We must go into the Well ourselves, stop standing around the drinking barrel and take the leap. No one else can do it for us and Now is the only time there is.
Provocative thoughts, which truly stir my soul. Your writings really do shake things up inside me, always creating new perspective for which I will always be eternally grateful.
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