Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
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