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Looking for the Bigger Picture

June 10th, 2008 10:24 pm —  81 views

There is always a bigger picture. Everything happening around us is part of that bigger picture. But it is bigger than that even.

The bigger picture includes what came before and how it came to be “this.” This bigger picture, carefully and continuously studied, reveals what is important and what isn’t.

Sometimes I struggle to see that bigger picture. Sometimes it’s hard to see what is important. Always seems to be so much noise. So much claiming importance.

Tough to find the middle ground. The area between too much and not enough. Where all things are balanced in a way that nothing falls over. But alas, the spinning plates.

I look for the bigger picture. Sometimes I fill in missing pieces with my imagination. Sometimes it helps, other times not so much.

Why is it that I’m waxing all philosophicacious? My mind, trying to step back, see the bigger picture. Trying to get some perspective, see proportion.

Image: Took this after our deck was striped and power-washed. It gets stained tomorrow.

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  1. Ma on June 13th, 2008 8:37 pm

    Ponder on this, “one is too many and a thousand never enough”.

  2. Spike on June 13th, 2008 10:32 pm

    Commence pondering:

    Makes me think of “the hungry ghost” in Buddhism and other religions.

    A hungry ghost is described as having a “mouth the size of a needle’s eye and a stomach the size of a mountain.”

    Desire and attachment, craving and aversion. Knowing, wanting, getting, avoiding.

    Called samsara by Buddhists. “The wearisome wandering-on from birth to death to rebirth.”

    There is no escaping if you don’t know you’re caught.

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