This one comes from my bank of saved quotes. If I remember correctly it's from Paulo Coelho's blog. Piggy backing on the master's work.
“Modern man tried to eliminate life’s uncertainties and doubts. And in doing so he left his soul dying of hunger; the soul feeds off mysteries” – says the dean of Saint Francis Cathedral.
It's true that we thrive to make everything certain. We purchase warranties because products should not fail. We try to predict tomorrows weather. We try to control the flu viruses. We try to estimate the size of the universe when we don't even know our neighbor. We ask a groundhog if spring will come early. We try to make every single interaction we have with anything as predictable as possible...
So my next blog entry will be Monday, February the 13th at 1pm Eastern time and I'll be discussing avoidance.
No mysteries for your soul today! Or maybe not...
Good post Mat. Society's obsession with trying to predict and control everything in life is one of the sources of the current generalized unhappiness epidemic in our society. The human ego thinks that it knows it all, whereas in reality as far as all that is to be known, we don't know really know anything at all.
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