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Posted by: ab ( )
Date: January 13, 2015 10:27AM
Where I want to live

A follow up on my now closed follow up thread "Why I'm not an Atheist, even though I'm not a theist either”
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1482782
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1483526
Einstein’s sense of wonder and awe on the unimaginably large, beautiful, terrible, and complex universe is where I want to live. The poet Rumi used the metaphor of the ocean for this state of consciousness. Struggling to read some of the comments from the thread I was reminded of the following words from Rumi:
There are several signs
in eyes that see all the way to the ocean. Bewilderment
is one. Those who study foam and flotsam near the edge
have purposes, and they'll explain them at length!
Those who look out to sea become the sea,
and they can't speak about that. On the beach
there's desire-singing and rage-ranting,
the elaborate language-dance of personality,
but in the waves and underneath there's no volition,
no hypocrisy, just love forming and unfolding.

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: January 13, 2015 01:04PM
Re: Where I want to live

OK.
I have a great sense of wonder and awe concerning the universe and everything in it.
I'm also an atheist.
Those two things aren't incompatible in any way.

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Posted by: ab ( )
Date: January 13, 2015 01:10PM
Re: Where I want to live

Sounds good to me

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