Good questions. It certainly is unfortunate that the Book of Boots has never been translated.
Consciouness/complexity is an external regulation. Success, for us, (if I may make so bold) resides in our living in accordance with our own Nature. Obviously, we are part of a larger Nature. Who could deny that? We ride the tide home to the far shore...the larger order of things. Within the tide we can gambol, work, create, and soar the sky and solar wind.
The spider has its Nature; So, also, the fly. Every form of life has its Nature. Mankind does; And every definitive part of Mankind does. Our complexity makes it difficult for us to know our individualized Natures, but this is an individual task which honors each of us as individuals. No-one else can honor this. It is ours alone...and our decision.
Still...a poem from Bliss Carmen may be appropriate here:
Time out of mind I have stood
Fronting the frost and the sun,
That the dream of the world might endure,
And the goodly will be done.
Did the hand of the builder guess,
As he laid me stone by stone,
A heart in the granite lurked,
Patient and fond as his own?
Lovers have leaned on me
Under the summer moon,
And mowers laughed in my shade
In the harvest heat at noon.
Children roving the fields
With early flowers in spring,
Old men turning to look,
When they heard a blue-bird sing,
Have seen me a thousand times
Standing here in the sun,
Yet never a moment dreamed
Whose likeness they gazed upon.
Ah, when will ye understand,
Mortals who strive and plod,—
Who rests on this old gray wall
Lays a hand on the shoulder of God! |
