Joy of a Bird

Joy of a  Bird

"To be a bird is to be alive more intensely than any other living creature, man included...they live in a world that is always the present, mostly full of joys."

The God who Weeps

I'm amazed at how pondering the tao still widens my view.

"If vulnerability and pain are the price of love, then joy is its reward.  That was the lesson Adam and Eve learn in the Garden, but the principle was rotted in the heavens.  As surely as the dark gives meaning to the dawn, so does pain give meaning to pleasure, and sorrow to joy.    The lesson of Creation is that the world.  It is in separating the light from the darkness, that God's work of the first day is complete...And He pronounces His work complete, only when He separates the man and woman, then draws them back together in a relation ship of mutuality that gives vitality and fruitfulness to what is human.  All that exists in ou r world of meaning must exist in paired opposition.
      In the Garden story, good and evil are found on the same tree, not separate orchards.   Good and evil give meaning and definition to each other...God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

---The God who Weeps, pg 33-34