Life is inseparable from Consciousness. The wisdom that continually creates the universe continually creates each one of us. Each one of us is a living process of continual creation, a unit of individual living entities, tiny cells that are born and die daily. We are each a living organism living in a living organism with living organisms living in us. The earth is a living organism living in a living universe, and the universe a living organism living where, in the mind of God? Where does all this consciousness come from? I do not know! It simply is! I do reflect on how all of these living organisms living in eachother are connected and bound together in one massive unit we call life. A great ball of living fire, the unity we all depend on and from and from which comes the ability to think, speak, contemplate our existence.
This rhetoric is a product of my thinking, but more than that, it is the product of all the thinking that I have been exposed to through a process bigger than I can express or explain. The search for a word in my mind to grasp it as a concept is absorption, or perhaps osmosis.
Thinking is something we all do all of the time, it is the action of consciousness and motivates the actions of human beings. The thinking human mind has thought long enough and clearly enough to attach the sounds he makes to symbols identified by letters strung together into words; to use words to name and define images that form in our thinking minds so we can think together and communicate our thoughts with eachother and, perhaps to gain understanding of life and love and happiness?
The Great Dome of the Sky was identified by the Ancients as the domain of thought. They defined its limits in terms of the Zodiac, observed the functions of heaven and devised a set of values to define these functions. We know them today and the equinox and the solstice, the turning of the earth in the heavens, the motion of the planets, and the changing of the seasons that in turn we used to identify and categorize the images of gods and deamons that emerged in our imaginations as we confronted the unknown day after day. The sky dome is the great sea of living electro-magnetic radiant energy breathed by the force of life which breathes each one of us and is that upon which we all depend for our existence. It still remains a mystery. It is who we are! Values used to define the function of this heavenly domain have changed again and again down through the ages of man, each age defining their own truth and contributing to the truths evolving in each new age of thought down to this very day.
The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists around 500,000 English words, each word formed from an alphabet of 26 letters. Isn’t this amazing? The dictionary strings these words together in linear alphabetical order. It is like a great ball of string that connects the first word to the last and can be unrolled by dropping it, or pulling on it, or throwing it. Now there are two balls in this piece of rhetoric, a great ball of fire and a great ball of words. For human beings, first there is life and then there are words. Both intregal to our life. Can there be words without life? Have you tried to separate words from your thoughts?
We use words to express and define how we feel inside; we use words to influence and motivate our selves and others, to create our beliefs, to fulfill our desires, to define our fears; we allow our thoughts to incite our rage, jealousy and hate, to defeat our selves, and to love one another. We are so much creatures of thought and so conditioned by our thinking that we inscribe ourselves into prisons by our words and actions. The good news is that trouble compelles us to question the origin of our beliefs; to separate ourselves from our acts of thinking; to reflect upon how we have come this place in the sand. Liberty and freedom is the reward of dominion over thought, which, [I think] is ability to rule word power with love and compassion. The pursuit of liberty brings lessons of understanding, which bring wounds to bodies and souls and tears to eyes and sorrows to hearts. The formative world, the world of thought, is a mental world and the wars and financial crisis the world faces at this moment stands as testimony to this. Understanding leads one into the world of the soul, a thought for another day.
| Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York: Penguin, 1992: 1 | "The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world's languages (which now number some 2,700), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade." | 500,000 words
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