Evolution is Self-creation.By Aiya-Oba.

[Graybeard]

Yes, Michael.
It is of little or no use knowing everything, but understanding nothing.
-Aiya-Oba.

Across Seas that have no beaches
to cast their waves upon
I floated with twelve peaches
a sofa and a swan
the blunt waves crashed above us
the sharp waves burst around
there was no one to love us
no hope of being found
there... on that far horizon
all endlessly adrip
I saw ... all of a sudden
no sign of any ship.
(Mervyn Peake)

[Mikal]

Aiya-Oba,thanks for the thread starter my friend,evolution,evoulution suggests an unfolding from within outwards,and the unrolling from an inner centre.The best definition
which I have come across is that which difines evolution as "the unfolding of a continually
increasing power to respond"!


regards michael.

Hi Michael...your definition here to define evolution as the unfolding of a continually increasing power to respond really makes sense to me.
I think about the word "responsibility" and it makes me think it is really about our "response-ability." Possibly over time and development this is really what we are trying to evolve...our ability to have a greater power of response to life and with life...it just makes sense to me and has a particular relationship to where the course of my own life has taken me....


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

Knowing is doing is understanding…

If no can do, then one cannot know.

(What came up when I searched my poems for "knowing"…)

— You Don’t KNOW —

You know you should drink less, eat right, diet,
Make friends, give love, work less, relax, quit
Smoking—but, you don’t, so—do you know it?
NO! you can’t KNOW it unless you DO it.

Searching for the ultimate happenstance—
Of how we began, leads to exploration
Of within and without, a rewarding quest;
Upon return, we know the place for the first time.

[Mikal]

Austin I think our struggle to evolve to having a greater ability to have a powerful response to life and with life entails an inner struggle where we consciously take part in dismantling a conditioned structure of fear that we have allowed to become an operative construct in our lives. I think this inner fabric exists within us and if filled with fear concepts it acts as a barrier between the physical world and the metaphysical world. Changing the nature of the fabric, deconstructing this operative construct simply allows us access to greater impressions of existence.....


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

— Fear Less —

I fear not death, Heaven, or even Hell—
For death is only life’s natural knell,
And Heaven and Hell are within the self;
The one thing I fear is not living well!