Life/form

The expansiveness of Life is useless without the limits of Form.

The limiting abilities of Form would not last, if they had no Life to contain.

Life looks at its own unravelling and yet pushes outward.

Form sees the outside limit and does not cross it; it keeps it in check.

There is no fight between them, only balance.

This is the ultimate equilibrium within duality.

Above/within

Inasmuch as we let go, our personal density diminishes, and it becomes easier to rise upwards.

In other words: inasmuch as our personal weight gives way to a different density, the density of "consciousness being conscious"... as we accomplish that, it becomes easier to go toward the within.

Above and within are truly one and the same, macrocosm and microcosm, macro=micro.

Us humans, the link between above (heaven-cosmos) and inside (the most intimate, the chemistry of beingness, at a molecular, atomic and subatomic level).

And soaking, soaking, soaking everything, conscience...

Coexistence

The modes of consciousness are simultaneous.

Some of them we are aware of, others we are not.

But they do not compete: they share the total task, so that humans may use them, to the best of their abilities.

Such interrelation without competition is a powerful lesson.

Rational

Both rational and ratio share the same Latin root.

So if something is rational (sensible, coherent), it takes proportion (ratio, balance, correlations) into account.

Proportion is a relationship between elements. It is often linked to beauty and harmony. It implies a harmonious integration of the parts in a whole.

Thus, true rationality regards both the whole and all of its parts. Rationality is, in this sense, inclusive.

Irrationality at its worst would then mean disregarding a part or several parts of a whole, in favour of others. Deviating visibly from an equilibrium, slanting markedly.

There is, of course, another ingredient to add to this: time. Time usually corrects excessive slanting by turning it around and promoting slanting in the opposite direction.

Is small beautiful?

Small is beautiful... true. But is big not beautiful, too?

Today I heard a wise woman say (I am very loosely quoting her): "the higher you go, the less detail you see; that is why the universe includes small creatures: because God loves detail, as well as wideness and heights".

The object of one's attention may be small. Scientists know about this. They deliberately limit their view, that they might penetrate the nature of their field of study through sheer concentration.

There are advantages to contemplating the universe in small chunks. So long as we don't lose perspective: every morsel belongs to the whole. All numbers stem from the one.