Peace from Elsewhere
For some life seems so ordered, stable and grounded. Some variation of the opposite for the rest of us. I have to wonder to what extent that ordered community is the exception or the rule. I suspect the former. That inner turbulence is normative and outer turbulence is difficult to avoid, is the western soul/life. Hence the need for help; for assistance from outside this system; for rescue by one better and stronger and who cares enough to act.
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Even when we do have things in order, at best they only stay in order for a brief period of time.
And we impose order in retrospect. So what seems like chaos while it is happening can become the step to the place we end up. If that makes sense.
Since we love to impose order through biographies and memoirs, it is easy to forget that those people were real people too. Their lives didn't feel like a 300 page book with rising action, clear conflict, and resolution. They felt like the same messy existences that we feel.
What a profound insight. I'm at a loss to respond.
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