One ‘truism’ I have spoken aloud for much of my life that has never encountered even a little bit of resistance is that “Life Is Weird”. No one has ever said in response “What do you mean?” or “I disagree”. Mostly people nod their head emphatically often with a smile forming on their face. In my late teens I modified the statement to “Life is weirder then you think.” Still no one argued. Then in my early 20,s I was listening to Deepak Chopra on tape and he said “Life is weirder then you can think”
With that statement Deepak hit the nail square on the head. Life even in the fullness of its relative aspects is bigger, deeper and vaster then the thinking mind can ever grasp. To it, life will always display a quality of weirdness. That even the relative aspects of life overflow the conceptual minds limits is an indication of the inseparability of the Absolute and the relative. Life is weird is acknowledgment of the Absolute Truth that every one can relate to because it conforms to our lived experience.
One the designation for Absolute Truth I especially like is ‘Great Mystery’ found among Native American traditions (I don’t know if it is in all of them or not). For those who have not lost (or have regained) their childlike wonder life’s weirdness can be experienced as Great Mystery winking at us
I will close this with another related quote. (I remember it from Angel Tech by Antero Ali but I don’t remember if he was quoting someone else or not)
“Life is a Mystery not so much to be figured out, but lived.”
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