i would love to know what folk think on this subject.. it occurred to me to put this up after it’s been on my other blog for a year or somewhere abouts there…it occurred just as i listen to a song with the lyric:
”heaven in this one line: don’t please yourself”
i love it.
so here, i’ve quoted a question of mine from a while back. i think the answer is in the fact that i have yet come to a conclusion on the subject…
we were thinking about aphorisms today.. and how beautiful they are just as “moments in time”. i think i like a quirky little inspiration more than a whole, long story…seems there’s less to read and the same amount to think about. Kafka wrote some, and i think this one’s worth sharing…
‘wrap your overcoat, o lofty dream, around the child’
you don’t know what it’s talking about do you..? but it says so much if ou sit and think about it. what is a lofty dream anyway?
my lofty dream would be to love people, but to do it well… and i wonder if it’s possible to love someone really quickly and fully or if it’s a journey…cos, if ‘love is patient’* then does it need time, take patience, to be tested? if ‘love never fails’* then does it require a few times of being challenged with the opportunity to fail but instead pass?.. if ‘love is kind’*, should it be old enough to have seen where to show kindness, and spent long enough in the suffering to show compassion (referencing last week’s post below)…?
*all references are exemplifications of what love is from 1 corinthians 13… the Bible
