If you haven’t seen the video yet of Louis CK on the Conan O’Brien show yet, I highly recommend it (HERE). Louis hilariously lampoons all of us how we take everything for granted when how truly amazing the world is. Ever feel grumpy on an airplane? Remember YOU ARE SITTING IN A CHAIR IN THE SKY! It is so amazing and something we can take so easily for granted.
(Coming in over Bali)Recently I was flying back to Bali from Bangkok and staring out the window I was captivated by the scene below. If it’s a daytime flight I always try to get the window seat so I can stare out the window. Here are some of the notes I wrote about it.
Looking out the window at an awesome view. Thousands of little white clouds hovering just ever so slightly above the sea. All of them evenly spaced and heading off into what seems an infinite horizon.
The sea looks so beautiful from up here. In this light the blue sea seems to have a translucent purple sheen to it. It really looks like a giant piece of rippled purple glass. I have never seen the sea look this color before. Magnificent.
The clouds just seem to hover there, just above it, content in their place. Why shouldn’t they be content? The universe they exist in is perfect. Perfect, the clouds have nothing to do. They need nothing and want for nothing. They are content in their splendor. Nothing to do though they will eventually be done in. Heated by the sun and pushed by the winds they will eventually be transformed into rain or bunched into larger clouds. But right now these clouds care not. For them nothing changes even as all things change.
A lone ship passes below, intent on its course. It cuts the only straight line across this infinite horizon. Its purposeful, linear direction must be humbled by the untroubled immensity of sky and sea all around. Perhaps someone on board is looking up at the same clouds that I’m looking down on and is as moved as me by the immense beauty. Perhaps he is looking up at me right now and wondering if someone on the plane is thinking the same thing. I smile.
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As he hovered above the world at 20,000 feet he saw things from a new perspective: the clouds, the sky, the sea and the ship. He told us about the world of quantum mechanics and the undifferentiated link between the observer and the observed.
But alas, another story goes untold: deep inside the heart of each of us dwells another universe full infinity and the finite, of storms and clear skys, of suns and thunder.
What was in that observers heart? I wonder.
-Sujantra
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