Complete within itself

The search for a path through life

Photograph: Piermont Pier, August 17 2024.

Is it possible for each day to be accepted as an event that’s complete within itself?

That it is filled with nothing other than a reference to the fact that it is?

As human beings, we’re in a world that’s completely filled with objects that emerge from the complications of our mind. Things we have fashioned. While all of these things are fascinating and complex, and it's ultimately true that they have ”emerged” from nature like everything else, it's also possible to see that they have diverged from nature because the human intellect and its often destructive curiosity have interfered with everything.

Perhaps the apple that Adam and Eve ate was this apple that contained the complications of the intellectual mind. There's no doubt that our intellect is a fork in the path that produces objects, events, circumstances, and conditions that are quite different than everything produced for other animals. They are, in a sense, self-made conditions rather than conditions that arise from a natural relationship and interaction with other animals and plants.

So there is a peculiar selfishness installed in human beings, a self-referential urge to interpret the world and fashion things to change it in ways that suit ourselves.