Perspective
Principles of Divine Economics
Principles of Divine Economics
By A.F.Z.
Often, people fail to recognize the Hand of the Divine within their own lives. They look up to the clouds and cry out for guidance, direction, support, and find none. They look to each other and say, “Where is God that I might be guided? Where is the care, the divine paternal coaching and council?
I submit to you that it is ever there, but we need to adjust our perception. Often this simple set of rules (really more like observations) will suffice.
“A Prompting is not given when Common Sense will suffice.
A Mortal Messenger is not sent when a Prompting will do.
An Angel is not sent when a simple Messenger will do.
The Divine will not manifest when Angels will do. “
Of course, I speak in terms of scale and metaphor, but you can certainly see the progression, evident in your own lives. One need only pay attention. Now pay attention! Because without doubt, there is a world of communications waiting for you, waiting for you to respond to them.
The Novelty of Curiosity
Something else we don’t teach our children anymore. Ever ask yourself why?
Well the answer is simple. Curiosity means that you are responsible. You are responsible for what you know and what you don’t know. You are responsible for your own understanding. Being curious is a delight to the discoverer of secrets and ideas, and annoying to anyone wanting to keep secrets or avoid thinking.
Curiosity is what sets us as human beings apart from most everything else, because we ask ourselves “Why,” and “What if.” It is our pursuit of novelty that opens up doors to hidden realms, formerly mysterious, now a delight of illumination!
Be curious. Life is more interesting that way, for everyone involved. 😉
Meditations Upon Perspective and Cauliflower
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Meditations Upon Perspective and Cauliflower
By: ZMHB
As I meditated under the rising sun this morning, I began to wonder: does it matter which direction I look? What I mean by this is should I look UP or should I look DOWN to understand the Universe?
I imagined myself as a small spider, circling around something that I had captured inside my web. As I did so, I considered the hundreds of hours I spent at my window in contemplation of this very activity as a young boy, where from spring to autumn of one incredible year I spent hours every day watching this lovely brown spider that lived on the metal bars outside my window (my bedroom was on the second story of our apartment at that time). As I watched her capture prey and then surround it with her web, I realized that my own thinking was very much the same. I marveled at how people like my youngest daughter could be so much more agile in her thinking, swooping and darting in and out of ideas like a swallow darting in and out of a chain link fence; never particularly concerning herself with the details, just the journey.
I, on the other hand, am more like the spider. I wait, and prepare, and know that should I do the correct things, the wind will bring me what I need; and the wind never fails. But should I envy my daughter’s innate ability to move in and out of esoteric concepts without really understanding the details? In the world of the spider, details are everything. In the world of the swallow, details are momentary, fleeting, and every changing. And yet both the spider and the sparrow are dependent upon the Wind for their journey through life and the esoteric.
As I considered these two perspectives, my mind drifted to the cauliflower that I was planning to steam and prepare later for lunch. My spider mind moved carefully across its ruddy and varied surface, and I realized that both large or small, it was still the same. The pattern of the cauliflowers growth is fractal. In my mind’s eye I drifted down to the surface of the cauliflower. As I stood there, taking in the illusion of variation in texture and structure of the surface, I saw the mentor of my youth stepping out of his rocket car — the car still steaming from its transit through what appeared to be a mountain — and he smiling said, “No matter where you go, there you are.”
I knew then, it didn’t matter. Small or large, up or down, the principles are the same, it is merely one’s perspective that changes, and with it we rise and we creep across the surface of consciousness, dimly aware that our transit is merely an illusion; for no matter where you go, there you are.
Zen Master Hubba Bubba 