can fill up the whole screen and feel all important... they can even
feel like 'life or death'.
Biked up to the top of a ridge today and came across a view of the
entire Monterey bay. Thousands of trees, then vast waters, and
mountains on the other side. And I felt how small this body is, and
got a reference for the size of this life that I call Corinna.
No less beautiful, but somehow, suddenly, filling up almost no
screen at all.
What's amazing to me is not that we can get caught up in our own tiny
lives, but that our consciousness actually has constant access to
consider and look out from orders of being which are THAT much
larger. It would be like one microscopic heart cell suddenly shifting
from the continual business of regulating what goes across it's own
borders, and somehow registering that this whole body and person is
going on.
What I also think that there's nothing really smaller or larger. Its all just a point of view, but magnitudes of order do seem to change the parameters of what's possible. Especially when we release ourselves from ones in which our attention has been caught.
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