The Madman: The Perfect World by Khalil Gibran
God of lost souls, thou who art lost amongst the gods, hear me: Gentle Destiny that watchest over us, mad, wandering spirits, hear me: I dwell in the midst of a perfect race, I the most imperfect. I, a human chaos, a nebula of confused elements, I move amongst finished worlds -- peoples of complete laws and pure order, whose thoughts are assorted, whose dreams are arranged, and whose visions are enrolled and registered. It is a perfect world, a world of consummate excellence, a world of supreme wonders, the ripest fruit in God's garden, the master-thought of the universe. But why should I be here, O God, I a green seed of unfulfilled passion, a mad tempest that seeketh neither east nor west, a bewildered fragment from a burnt planet? Why am I here, O God of lost souls, thou who art lost amongst the gods? ------------ Greetings, I hope you all forgive me for posting these little gems. I have them playing randomly on my iPod via the Shuffle option, it's uncanny the song or piece of music that plays following a parable. Kudrun Hahahahah [Ron] Is the perfect world of the unquestioned life of social and cultural convention, the true aim of a liberated soul? Is freedom such a frightening concept? it is indeed. To take responsibility for ones own life and live boundless in the awareness of the infinite requires bravery of the most uncommon sort. Is true freedom a form of madness? does it take the bravery of forsaking the self and embracing the madness unknown? taking on the awsome responsibilty of ones own freedom. do you aspire to happiness as merely freedom within the bounds of convention? or the unbounded dynamic freedom of madness? while the former retains self the latter does not. To lose the self is a frightening prospect to gain unbounded freedom. while some would see the loss to be the death of real living others see as the birth . Ones madness is anothers liberation.... Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
