I like to think that everything is a coincidence. Life feels more amazing to me if it has no meaning. No secret agenda. Beautifully random.*
Derek Sivers

In short, the more we try to render the world controllable, the more it eludes us; and the more daily life loses … its resonance, its capacity to touch, move and absorb us.**
Oliver Burkeman

I never know what will turn up in
my reading in a morning, in the
randomness of my book and blog shuffle –
here are four from today:
The universe has given birth to we strange
creatures of meaning, necessary to our
deeper consciousness, possible in the darkest of
circumstances, as Viktor Frankl shares
from the death camp:
For even in this socially limited environment,
in spite of the societal restriction upon his personal freedom,
the ultimate freedom still remains his:
the freedom even in camp to give some shape to his existence.^
Though it is not
a card we have to play all the time,
Sometimes, we can just let the world be
the world, enjoying the wonder and allowing ourselves
to be astonished: Life getting on
with its own thing whilst
we walk across it:
This is wisdom –
To mean or not to mean.

Without creative engagement in the world, without contributing to the spirit of the world, I think I would start to feel a bit like an onlooker or something. But maybe that would be enough, just to observe what the world has to offer. Its a rich and amazing place and perhaps it has wonder enough.^^

*Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No;
**Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals;
^Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul;
^^Nick Cage, from Nick Cage and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage.