when reading this.
something again touches me about the beauty and simplicity of enjoying being with children and family and those you love. to simply enjoy the company of others fully in the moment without distraction. to find ecstatic joy in the most banal events of daily life. (so maybe swimming in the red sea isn't banal, but you understand what i mean).
the rest of this ny times photo-essay is stunning, i loved each picture and passage - they say so much about life and what worldwide we are all striving towards. towards connection and meaning and fulfillment and some understanding that there actually is more out there, outside of our consciousness, vision, and perspective. to feel even the most momentary of relation to an other. to incorporate that other into the self, and to no longer feel an isolation of experience. like buber said, to say THOU, to truly say and mean that expression of relation, to escape the it-world, where others are mere objects or means to be used, but instead to say thou in actual equanimity of relation.
"all actual life is encounter."
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this is truly stunning. thank you for sharing.
I remember seeing this not too long ago and loved it. I remember when I was in the Jung center in Houston once and they had a quote something about the Dagara tribe in Africa and how in their language they have no word for the "you", the closest that exists in their language is a word that means "my other self"
sometimes i feel like i leave this blog for two seconds and there is an utter explosion of too much-ness - i almost feel too self-indulgent as i sit in the library and sigh and start and breathe deeply. oh, this is beautiful, and for some reason i also nearly cried.
as for that last line: i love it deeply and i needed to hear it and i am going to borrow it because it suddenly makes so much of what i've been questioning over this past year make more sense. thank you.
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