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Docta Ignorantia LVI Towards a Homeopathy of History Its the little things that count. We usually think of what we see as what is important. For this reason, many people try to make us pay attention to what they feel is important so that we will consider them important and thereby they may feel that they are important -- because we seem to them to feel that they are. Obviously, this common phenomenon is a game having no importance ... except that it raises the question in our minds and hearts of what, in fact, really is important, what really is necessary that we grasp, be or become. Its the little things that count. The seed of a cedar tree wont do a thing until it is allowed to putrefy in moist dirt. A little water, a little dirt and a little seed, make a big tree -- by way of a big stink. The important things stay hidden from view. They do this deliberately as both an operations and a survival strategy. As St. Francis pointed out, the big fish get caught while the little ones are going in and out of the nets. Compared to its number of infinitesimal animals, the worlds number of large animals is itself infinitesimal. The most advanced form of life, a human being, begins and matures in a marvelous, anaerobic darkness. Our historians look at a few important people -- who are really only self-important -- and attend their words and deeds as history. This is delusion, not historiography. History is the thoughts of Saints and Sages, surcharged with wisdom, which take effect wherever they are and when their time is ready. Until Saints and Sages decide, history does not happen. The important people are agents of decisions formulated and resolved upon by Saints and Sages. Saints and Sages write the play which unfolds upon the world stage as history, without ceasing.
Adwaitha Hermitage
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