Nov 6, 2007 4:41:25 AM cite

Life is Ugly and Beautiful, Alive and birthing, death and dying, they sit next to each other on the corner, lifes paradox, becoming beautiful as zombie passage states in" what makes life ugly?" Once we see that all this lies within, there is no need to go outside for the duality is part of the existance. So many things seem to make life Beautiful, a sunset, an abundance of fruit hanging from the tree in the dewy morning, a surfer coming to shore from an epic session, a climber meeting the summit, the mergence of colors in just the right way, The mastery of nature's design orchastrated from evolution. SO much also makes life ugly, the wipe out of a runner befor the finish, the bad combination of people in the wrong place at the wrong time, can get ugly, the way people sometimes hold themselves, or not hold themselves. Without the Ugliness the beauty can not seem to shine through and vice versa, We need to be, to be human, and life will unfold in both beauty and ugliness, and I ask what do you find beautiful in this life?

by Benjamin Fahrer

Dec 21, 2007 10:51:28 AM cite

Non-life is 99.99999999 percent of our universe. Where life rarely may no doubt exist I am willing to go out on a limb and say conscious within life is exponentially rarer still! So tell me not to believe in the Godhead, the One, The maker and the tickle beyond your loneliness? ? :)

by ozm8

Nov 6, 2007 9:32:49 AM cite

There is a reference to such paradox in the "Salamon's verdict" where two women were struggling for a child and he order the child to be split in two parts. Then the woman that "let go" was recognized as the truly loving mother. I think such stories are beautiful and music is also beautiful like the lyrics of Jim Morrison say: "Music is your only friend, until the end", where "The End" for me would/will be "The Beginning".

by zombie passage