Comments on: On flying http://www.villanelle.org/2009/08/13/on-flying/ Let the beauty you love be what you do. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:42:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: ricepaper http://www.villanelle.org/2009/08/13/on-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-68 ricepaper Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:02:44 +0000 http://www.villanelle.org/omnia/?p=460#comment-68 i think i understand what you've written about risk and danger, but i also think there is a distinction that can be made between risk and recklessness. i believe risk is often an unavoidable part of life, and when it is chosen, it is chosen as a gesture of honor for and celebration of the miraculous value of living, a gesture of openness to a full range of human experience (both what we choose and what simply happens), a gesture welcoming and intentioned and mindful and sanctified. a gesture of love. while recklessness, in my understanding, is the opposite of all of that. and a joyful, grateful, welcoming openness to the wisdom of a wide range of experience is related also to ideas of the "ordinary" world vs. "sublime" experiences, or easy emotions/events vs. difficult emotions/events, all of which have use and value, and all of which are contained within the same spectrum. i feel glad for all the depth and breadth i can get, which is still so infinitely small! i think i understand what you’ve written about risk and danger, but i also think there is a distinction that can be made between risk and recklessness. i believe risk is often an unavoidable part of life, and when it is chosen, it is chosen as a gesture of honor for and celebration of the miraculous value of living, a gesture of openness to a full range of human experience (both what we choose and what simply happens), a gesture welcoming and intentioned and mindful and sanctified. a gesture of love. while recklessness, in my understanding, is the opposite of all of that.

and a joyful, grateful, welcoming openness to the wisdom of a wide range of experience is related also to ideas of the “ordinary” world vs. “sublime” experiences, or easy emotions/events vs. difficult emotions/events, all of which have use and value, and all of which are contained within the same spectrum. i feel glad for all the depth and breadth i can get, which is still so infinitely small!

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