Reflection 275

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All Powerful

Naturally you are all-powerful. You aren’t all-powerful in the sense that you could – if you really pulled yourself together and got around to it – set up a model universe in which there’s love without indifference and hate, courage without danger and fear, goodness without evil, beauty without dreariness and ugliness, life without death. No: you can no more make these improvements than you can make black whitewash or silent bangs. The list of the things that even you can’t do is endless. All the same, you are all-powerful in the sense that, accepting the coexistence and clash of opposites as the price (a terribly high price, but not prohibitive) of a cosmos, you let out an almighty YES! to it all – YES throughout it all and in spite of it all, YES because this (in all its astounding and awful and lovely detail) is what you are, and YES because you will what you are. (Douglas Harding. The Little Book of Life and Death.)