For the n th time you feel you're slightly off the beat, out of sync. All very well saying one shouldn't be conformed to the times one lives in, but that presupposes a conscious act of will. To be silent when one should have spoken; to speak when one ought to have been silent.
There is a proper time for giving back and for receiving. Some great harmony that alludes you. Not that you care much about "the world" and its mechanisms but part of you does wonder. There is no "pure" time here, no time mapped out in space that one can traverse in any direction; lived time is a walk in a dark room. This person who lives in time and space is neither a "being" nor an "agent" but "I", crooked and all.
You push back the reasons and eventually you get to a bedrock which is unknowable, even though it is offers a kind of gentle half-understanding. There is a type of bewilderment that is quite common to our types...the soul ties its shoe; the mind washes its hand in a basin.
Perhaps something utterly simple, away from the convoluted scribblings of "thinkers" and the shenanigans of academics.
There is a proper time for giving back and for receiving. Some great harmony that alludes you. Not that you care much about "the world" and its mechanisms but part of you does wonder. There is no "pure" time here, no time mapped out in space that one can traverse in any direction; lived time is a walk in a dark room. This person who lives in time and space is neither a "being" nor an "agent" but "I", crooked and all.
You push back the reasons and eventually you get to a bedrock which is unknowable, even though it is offers a kind of gentle half-understanding. There is a type of bewilderment that is quite common to our types...the soul ties its shoe; the mind washes its hand in a basin.
Perhaps something utterly simple, away from the convoluted scribblings of "thinkers" and the shenanigans of academics.
Jamie Woon - Shoulda
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