It has been said that all of the world’s great thinkers have said the same thing in their own way.
The tilde is another way of representing absence. When it is combined with other characters, it can also be used to represent a pause or a long-held breath. With the aid of my own words, I have gone far down the rabbit hole and am looking for answers. We will go the whole way, and there will be no other path. We will climb back up to our present state, but as we reach for the stars, we must look into our hearts to see the truth. Chaos gives you the right to be free. When a question arises in your mind, ask it, ask again. Don’t be like an ordinary person, trying to find answers in the external, such as, “What is truth?” The best we can do is come up with metaphors and stories to make things make sense. Language provides a simple answer to everything, whereas reality never provides an answer. Truth is not an answer. That would imply something that is the answer, which is like an equation that has an answer. If reality were an equation, there would be no solution. Some questions have no “right” answer.
I can write this down in a coherent way, in an order, because in the past, the future, the present, it was all just one big, in-between-ness. It is only through the human capacity for language that we began to comprehend the reality of ourselves and the things around us. As I have been observing, there has been an ongoing and increasing reduction of language. I believe we are making progress, albeit incredibly slow, but progress nonetheless. We are taking the first steps in an infinite number of directions. Language has its limitations and does not take into account the complexity of the infinite worlds we may inhabit. It is merely a representation of our experiences.
Nowadays, we are so conditioned to be plugged into the machine 24/7, through smartphones, email, and the internet, that there is really no need to connect with anyone unless there is a mutual agreement or it is for work, and as we no longer have a connection with the earth, we are more confused and less capable of making decisions for ourselves than ever. We should not be afraid to be alone and to take a step back for a moment to appreciate a sunset or breathe in the breeze for longer than we are expected to. A little distance goes a long way. We need to be more in touch with our bodies and the way we feel. Our lives are much less connected to each other than they were. We can no longer read each other’s facial expressions. If you want to get the real meaning of something, just look at someone’s eyes for a few seconds, then they will explain it to you.
The idea of creating a more humane community is no longer the exception that it once was. The world is becoming more inclusive and people are no longer willing to live a lie anymore. People are starting to see the importance of community and its benefits. As humans, we have reached a point in time where many feel that all progress is dead. However, there is still a chance for advancement to those who are willing to put forth the effort to improve.
A man’s soul doesn’t belong to him and nothing can fill the emptiness in him. He must always be looking to create and experience new. He can’t settle down with an eternal life, his existence is transient and he can’t get lost in it. A man is born, lives, and dies, his existence is a cycle. …not only do we miss these moments of discovery, but we don’t know which ones are significant in that they allow the reformation of the other parts. The pattern is so beautiful that we don’t yet know where to start looking…for the clues…for the missing pieces… In every age, the universe begins and ends and re-begins, as the circle of life goes on. It is ever an endless cycle, where the same energies and ideas will recur throughout time. From the infinite cosmic potential of the Big Bang to the endless cycles of life and death on earth, from the energy of the Big Bang to the energy of a flower, from a single electron to a galaxy, all matter is made up of elements from the same finite set, the Periodic Table of Elements, which is also the Periodic Table of God. The universe is infinite in its complexity, but it is made up of a finite and consistent set of elements. So, when the universe begins, the same elements and the same energies and forces exist. And when the universe ends, the same elements and energies and forces re-appear. And so there is nothing new. All change and all novelty comes from the mental creation of one’s own consciousness. All life and all matter and energy is the same energy and matter at different points of its cycles. That’s the definition of entropy. It means that everything is going through a process of evolution and dying and being born again.
We are in the process of this transition from Order to Chaos right now, right now in this year 2013. Because all change is cyclical and a cycle lasts an eon or an era, this is the Time of the Second Coming. It will be a time of change, of transition, and of transformation.
When Order and Chaos come together, we get Creation.
…it’s very hard to convey the sense of discovery in art
~ of the forest ~ the patterning ~ the unfolding
~ where to start looking ~ the pattern seems so complete ~ in spite of the “missing pieces”
To do more, to do it better, we need more. But what we see and hear, as usual, is a beginning, that is also an end, an end being born, a birth, the moment of an end, the last time the pattern would have to be reformed.
…and all this while the primordial pattern would continue, unchanged, the universe would continue, without end, as the pattern.
…which leads us back to the beginning.
If we could see, then we would see the beginning in the ending, we would see the pattern of the universe in the unfolding of the moment in the pattern of the universe. The pattern is so beautiful.
And we would see our place in the pattern. And we would see our place as part of the universe, as part of the order, the pattern, which is in everything.
In the moments of discovery, we see the whole of the universe and our place in it and our place in it as part of it, of the whole.
…and we become part of the unfolding moment.
We become the pattern and the pattern is us and we are the pattern and we are the unfolding moment. We are part of the whole and we are so small and there is so much to see and discover and it’s the beginning of what we are.
I’m glad I’m getting to read all this 
To which I replied: Seriously, no hurry, Lina - this may take me a while to fix. As usual, Lina begins with some dissection(I expected nothing less from her):