Nathan: "Whereas I think Thoreau is more, he looks at nature and all of its diversity as kind of independent spheres, independent subjects."
Nathan, there is a union in this diversity. Rumi teaches me that diversity only reveals the beauty that lies in unity. It was the interdependence of different natural spheres surrounding us that brought me to you from inside a system that has put up brick walls between us. We are neighbors in the Milky Way: "Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?"
It was the connection between Walden Pond and the Persian Gulf that brought me to you:
"The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names."
Yes, the unity that underlies all the diversity in the physical world and the spiritual world is something that we should all strive to see and to feel, even if only by glimpses and touches. I am glad that beneath all the misery and chaos of the world, there are forces that hold connections and hearts together.
Nathan: "Whereas I think Thoreau is more, he looks at nature and all of its diversity as kind of independent spheres, independent subjects."
Nathan, there is a union in this diversity. Rumi teaches me that diversity only reveals the beauty that lies in unity. It was the interdependence of different natural spheres surrounding us that brought me to you from inside a system that has put up brick walls between us. We are neighbors in the Milky Way: "Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?"
It was the connection between Walden Pond and the Persian Gulf that brought me to you:
"The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names."
Yes, the unity that underlies all the diversity in the physical world and the spiritual world is something that we should all strive to see and to feel, even if only by glimpses and touches. I am glad that beneath all the misery and chaos of the world, there are forces that hold connections and hearts together.