The Oddness Of Everything by George Will

Having just written about the imperativeness of having an open mind that includes the unpredictability of everything, I was flying to Spokane for work this past weekend.

I opened up a complimentary copy of  Newsweek Magazine on the flight and turned intuitively to a page that had George Will's column entitled "The Oddness of Everything." (It was his graduation address to the University of Miami).

Wow, surprise!  Though he is not generally of my political persuasion, but wow, he just reiterated, far more eloquently than I, about the importance of improbability, complexity and the "mysterious indeterminacy of things."

He writes, "The greatest threat to civilization is an excess of certitude....the spirit of liberty is the spirit of not being too sure that you are right.... contemplate-even savor-the unfathomable
strangeness of everything, including ourselves."

Moral of the Story...True intuition flourishes in freedom from formulas, habitual expectations, predilections, prejudices and predeterminations.  Have an open mind, an open heart, a sensing body that responds to the now, from moment to moment  with a "beginners mind."

(Transmitted 8/28/05)