We live, quite literally, on an oasis of light. A living, breathing bio-ship - with light years of empty space surrounding, shielded from the infinite void. This void implies a sure death. We drift across the vastness of space, protected by the grace of a blessing we don't even remember receiving. Not from where, or when, or by whom. Yet the blessing persists, giving life, protection, containment. But we are also a degenerate, ignorant species - vying for our own destruction, and the escaping of that destruction onto other, uninhabitable worlds. We plan for the inevitable peak of our own vanities. We do so not only through self-deprecating action, but through inaction masquerading as acceptance. Accepting reality means accepting oneself, and accepting the fatedness of all things, which also implies that your desires, ambitions and highest wants and needs serve as integral parts of that fatedness, of greater design. The spiritual seeker must never allow himself to devolve into a state of passive acceptance. "Everything is as it should be, everything is perfect." A mind entrapped in its own powerlessness uses this sentiment as clever demagoguery to not do, to keep himself from creating, or daring to create, and to escape the responsibility of carrying the burden of their missions and gifts. Everything is perfect, yes - but that also includes you in your absolute authentic self. Your wants, and needs, and desires - and your actions towards the abovementioned. You cannot pull yourself from the equation - you *are* the equation. You cannot accept the world without accepting yourself. You will always be spiritually incomplete. The equation, therefore, is incomplete without your participation. You were not sent here to observe the choking breaths of a dying species - you were here to know yourself, to be and see yourself in action. This great work is why men climb mountains. Come to know yourself to know the world, and come to know the world to know yourself. The fool thinks he has conquered the world by not participating in it. ![[IMG_2718.jpeg]]