Ok. Fine. I finally start catching up on my blog reading this morning and find that Scott has given me the digital noogie -
“Pick up your nearest book and go to page 123. Find the fifth sentence,
and post on your blog the next three sentences. Acknowledge who tagged
you, and then tag five more people.”
All right. Lessee… my nearest 4 books all seem to be dictionaries or a thesaurus, so I’ll have to wander over to the book stack by my bed. It’s kind of a judgement call, as there are about 16 books there, and those in the the top layer are pretty much equidistant to me as I ponder them. But, the others are very neatly stacked and this one is slightly askew, so, in a fit of John Cage-ian/Brian Eno-esque acceptance of randomness…
“Cooperation is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive. The ego doesn’t know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you. When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe — in the form of people and circumstances — gives little or no help to you because you have cut youself off from the whole.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
Hmm. Which is a sorta curious, kind of a powerful little thought or two there. You could use that to describe bicycle racing, I suppose, in a way that might make the stick-and-ball sports enthusiasts understand why those riders from different teams work together.
But, that brings a reasonably high level statement down to such specificity. And, that isn’t why I’m reading (or rather taking small bites from) that book. It’s an interesting set of thoughts to come across by chance, as things in my life seem to be heaing more on a path of inclusion and interaction rather than more isolated and individual things. We’ll see.
And, please forgive me, but “Tag you’re It“ -