Meditations

7.9

The web is holy

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed, harmoniously, and together they compose the world.

One world, made up of all things.

One divinity (God), present in the all.

One substance and one law - the logos that all rational beings share.

And one truth…

If this is indeed the culmination of one process, beings who share the same birth, the same logos.

2.1

When you wake in the morning

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They’re like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrong doer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. None of them can implicate me and ugliness, nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him we were born to work together, like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower to obstruct each other is unnatural to feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him – these are obstructions.

2.5

Like it were the last thing you were doing

..” do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being a mess, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable…”

3.5

Straight not straightened

..cheerfulness. Without requiring other peoples help. Or serenity supplied by others.

To stand up straight - not straightened.