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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Instant thoughts, just add water

Limestone and water...ingredients that can lead to potentially wonderful and dangerous things. It's not so bad at the beginning, you catch a fleeting thought about an subject or an idea that you haven't thought about in a long time and a little water runs over that thought of stone. As you think more and more about that idea, your thoughts become deeper gushing into the idea, creating a gorge. Some people don't have this ability; thier thoughts cannot go deeper into the ground, they simply skim atop the surface, never giving a deep thought to anything...or anyone. But the deep thinker ponders an idea and soon bores a huge space underground with just his thoughts, his simple water. He thinks deep and long and hard and eventually a cave, or better yet a cavern is formed by his thoughts that is deep and well rounded. The caverns are a scarry place to be, as are all men's minds, yet still they are also the most beautiful places immaginable. One of the best parts about the caverns is that the thoughts don't stop, the water is constantly flowing through them, sometimes expanding on old passageways and sometimes creating completely new ones. Now imagine, if you could pick through a man's thoughts; explore the cave; reach the end and find out what is at the heart of a man. Does it end at an underground lake, too big to see the end; does it end in a magestic pillar, showing how strong his heart is; does it end after a few feet of crawling through a small tunnel, so small that you have to crawl quickly out backwards; does it even go in at all, skimming the surface of everything, flowing across the surface of the earth, not changing anything, not going in deep on any idea. Ask yourself, will you dare to think deep? Will you dare to create a cave? A cavern? Will you even think at all?

1 comment:

Mason said...

Very well written and insightfull. Great analogy

-mason