Theos-Talk Archives (May 2002 Message tt00197)

In a message dated 5/24/02 9:09:09 AM Central Daylight Time, 
eldon@theosophy.com writes:

<< 
Inappropriate emotions come from an "emotional disconnect." One
is responding to an imaginary drama in one's own mind that is
unrelated to the actual situation with real people before us in
the world. The outer world doesn't matter because one has
partially lost his or her grip on it.
>>

I would contend that given the state of the world, it is probably far 
healthier to be as disconnected from it as possible. 

We must attach too much importance to things or events but realize that in 
the great scheme of things they are all pretty absurd. After all, what do we 
but play out our little dramas, pretending that books that no one reads any 
more actually somehow matter and imagine that we are the holders of some 
peculiar wisdom that has no real impact on the world any more? 

Solemnity? How can one feel solemn looking up at the stars? Joy, that is 
the feeling that comes from viewing the starry vault above. From looking at 
the news? Sadness if one worries a lot, laughter if one realizes that 
nothing that appears on that screen is going matter in a hundred years. 

Laughter, not nemesis, is the cure for hubris.

Chuck