And again, this is our legacy. Our heroes are those who have proven beyond all odds the invincible truths to the universe, and our army is found in every walk of life, pockets of people who know that there is a better world crying out to be built up from the ruins that crumble and have crumbled around us. And our calvary is truth, universal truths, that we can rely on ALWAYS. Morihei Ueshiba knew it, when he turned to the techinques of science and mathematics in the forms of nature to base Aikido from. Albert Einstein knew it when he sought to teach us that the language of the universe is written in a cryptography that is complicated, but is still a cryptography that can be broken with the ingenuity, insight, and intelligence of the human mind. Or that can can be improved significantly by the collection of human minds.
And yes...those puzzle pieces are terribly important. But the key is that no one person has 100% of the puzzle. That's the thing they don't tell you in the instructions. You're born, and at some point, you open the box, to find one or an immeasurable number of puzzle pieces, and the only instruction given is:
"Please complete the puzzle."
The pieces we hold individually might not make sense. And the picture on the box is dingy and faded and blurry, and looks like different things to different people. Only by working together with everyone and saying "These are all the pieces I have in my pocket," whether they make sense to us or not, and asking "Please show me all of the pieces you have collected up to this point in your life," are we to approach solving this thing. Even if you only have one piece that has been useless to you your entire life, and you don't even recognize that it's a piece, it might be the missing key to something that someone else has been working on.
You're walking around scratching your head, holding in your hand some random cog, and cross paths with this other cat, who sees it and shouts "EUREKA! That is the last cog of the machine that I've built from parts I've collected that will move us into the next phase of growth and positive evolution!"
Bam. Equation completed, or at least another step. Step by step, we must do this, and we must not loose faith. Like you told me, you have to look for those stories that validate our hopes, faiths, and the struggles that we undergo daily, yearly, generation by generation.
Marinate on this. It is proven that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (isn't it?), but the most natural distance between two points is the way of the sprial.
Our way may seem to take a much longer, and sometimes more convoluted route, but our way is one that is backed by the cornerstones of the universe. Know that, and have faith in that truth.
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Date: 2005-01-20 11:34 am (UTC)And yes...those puzzle pieces are terribly important. But the key is that no one person has 100% of the puzzle. That's the thing they don't tell you in the instructions. You're born, and at some point, you open the box, to find one or an immeasurable number of puzzle pieces, and the only instruction given is:
"Please complete the puzzle."
The pieces we hold individually might not make sense. And the picture on the box is dingy and faded and blurry, and looks like different things to different people. Only by working together with everyone and saying "These are all the pieces I have in my pocket," whether they make sense to us or not, and asking "Please show me all of the pieces you have collected up to this point in your life," are we to approach solving this thing. Even if you only have one piece that has been useless to you your entire life, and you don't even recognize that it's a piece, it might be the missing key to something that someone else has been working on.
You're walking around scratching your head, holding in your hand some random cog, and cross paths with this other cat, who sees it and shouts "EUREKA! That is the last cog of the machine that I've built from parts I've collected that will move us into the next phase of growth and positive evolution!"
Bam. Equation completed, or at least another step. Step by step, we must do this, and we must not loose faith. Like you told me, you have to look for those stories that validate our hopes, faiths, and the struggles that we undergo daily, yearly, generation by generation.
Marinate on this. It is proven that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (isn't it?), but the most natural distance between two points is the way of the sprial.
Our way may seem to take a much longer, and sometimes more convoluted route, but our way is one that is backed by the cornerstones of the universe. Know that, and have faith in that truth.