Should I Stay or Should I Go?

"To rediscover this sense of connection with the world is easier than one might imagine. You can do it anywhere, any time. Just open your eyes, look around you, and try to feel what is around you. If you open up your heart and allow what you might normally think of as “inanimate” (notice the insistence of not having spirit that our language has instilled in us… a vocabulary that does not exist in most Asian languages) to generate a kind of presence, strangely it immediately comes alive and occupies a undeniable place in your sense of the whole. If you take a step further and inject the idea of a deity into that object, suddenly it is more than just an item; it is alive, and has a name. The more “items” you inject with spirit the richer the world around you grows, and the more imbued with meaning it all grows into. The world suddenly blossoms with presences, with a great richness of meaning in which you no longer feel alone… as Duncan calls “the sphere of eyes”.

Laughing: Knees
The Blog of Miguel Arboleda

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[Miguel Arboleda]

I wanted to thank you for posting this about my site and my words and picture. It's an honor, though I think I don't deserve it, since I still haven't had a chance to buy my Moleskine yet! But I will. I can never resist notebooks and pens for very long. I have way too many of them sitting about unused as it is...