Don’t Try Me To Try The Moon - Part 3 of 3
just like one that you have thought about buying. So... are you going to ask the devil how he likes his new ride? Then you realize that you and the devil must have the same taste in mountain bikes. What does that tell you about him? What does that tell you about you? Now imagine that the devil, or this person who you are most afraid of is riding a bicycle exactly like one that you used to have and that you thought was a piece of junk. Do you say anything when he says Hell-o or do you blurt out, " Hey man I had a bike like that and it was a piece of junk"? Let me say this again, "No messes or foolish thinking are allowed out on the bike path". The answers to these questions are just too obvious. Can you see why it is so out on the bike path? Would it be so hard not to always get off on the wrong foot with everybody you meet in life who is just a little bit different than you? You are, remember, to that person, just a little bit different yourself, to them. Is that too much trouble for us to ask of ourselves, to be considerate and work on our definition about what being civilized means?
What I guess I'm trying to convey, mainly about my own evolutionary understanding of my own personal spirituality, is that I feel like I have, in many ways, evolved. Today I talk about things I love and have a passion for. I don't spend a bunch of time thinking about fearful stuff or inventing it either. There are lots of people already doing that and from what I see are doing a marvelous job at it. I used to be so incomplete and the voids inside of me I tried to fill in ways that were harmful to me. That's what we do in our culture. That is what that blimp is saying that fly's over the stadium crowd during football season. "Let me help with your pain, I can make you completely numb if you let me" is the message up there on that thing that even lights up the night sky with its insistent message. The image you watch on your television set actually comes from their perspective, which includes more than a great vantage point from where to
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