So, I think you have to have a world view that is simple but true in order to navigate being. I have no idea how I'd describe mine, but it feels necessary that I keep trying. Many, maybe most, say their religion belongs in that spot. I've studied so many, looking for the most right one for me. Instead, I've made peace with the fact that none so far, for me, have adequately illuminated and celebrated the mystery, or even come close. Neither has science alone, as magnificent and mysterious as it is.
I would never choose to reinvent the wheel. It takes so much unnecessary time more happily spent using that wheel. But mostly so far, I guess, my world view is that I can't fully believe tidy world views. Yet I also refuse to have a world view of refusal alone. Refusing to believe this, denying that, denigrating the other versions. Being more right and righteous than my poor, deluded, sinful, ugly neighbor is not the way I want to be. Time will run out and I would have to look back someday and say in horror, 'That is how I used my precious time?' Nope. Instead, I'm letting the mystery be. I'm OK that all of us grasp a bit of it, and I'm loving the mystery, trusting that any and all attempts so far to describe it are woefully, humanly inadequate, but that still there is an organizing intelligence to admire and episodically glimpse. An organizing intelligence that includes suffering and joy, light and dark, still and frantic, terrifying and peaceful.
And creating. Your self and your way of being is creating something. While you are being human, knowingly or not, you get to do that. It's amazing. My overall intention is to create a life that is loving and joyful, accepting and peaceful in the midst of pain and horror and busy and beauty and indifference. I hold that in place and then ride through the day, immersed in whatever is that I perceive through the flawed lense that I own now and that will change as I pass through. Boredom, sadness, beauty, storm. Suffering. Joy. I know whatever it is will be temporary. Like me. And everything and everybody. I'm OK with that. In fact, I love that. So much.
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