http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2006/12/15/664/ the haphazard record of a life lived large Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2006/12/15/664/#comment-1785 parke Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:03:58 +0000 http://mixedmoss.voxtropolis.com/2006/12/15/664/#comment-1785 We are all certainly taking a measure of a gamble, especially when viewed by those who don't agree with us. I guess when I wrote the above post I thought about the fact of letting go of false impressions that is a part of the oft repeated "dying to self" that is so cryptic to modern readers. We believe that the air is full of the supernatural, but we very often don't understand or internalize the wonder that comes with this. To borrow the words of Mute Math, it's the "beautiful surrender" to a sense of reality that I find myself regularly going through. Glad to hear this encouraged some good thoughts. We are all certainly taking a measure of a gamble, especially when viewed by those who don’t agree with us. I guess when I wrote the above post I thought about the fact of letting go of false impressions that is a part of the oft repeated “dying to self” that is so cryptic to modern readers. We believe that the air is full of the supernatural, but we very often don’t understand or internalize the wonder that comes with this. To borrow the words of Mute Math, it’s the “beautiful surrender” to a sense of reality that I find myself regularly going through. Glad to hear this encouraged some good thoughts.

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