In prison yesterday remembering a card with four squares and the words “you are not alone.”
How the first letters (ya na) seem to ask question, “yes?”, “no?”
If we elide “alone” from either side of the comma, it reads— you are not, god is.
You are not — alone is.
Only alone.
So it goes!
Perhaps this is why so few people have faith in god, so few people actually believe, and move, and have their being in god,
God is all there is. God is “here.” Here is all there is.
I hear, differently, Gertrude Stein’s “There’s no there there.” Every there becomes here to someone thinking they’re going there.
Every child on a trip, so goes the meme, asks “Are we there yet?” Parents lie and say, “Almost!” Or “Soon!”
But there is no-there there. Here is no-there.
Or, perhaps, “here is not-here.”
The absence of god becomes clearer.
The death of god, to our thinking, becomes present.
God is present in this absence.
We are all alone; we are not alone.
We are all; we are not.
The objective disappears.
Nothing other appears, and there is nothing to be seen.
Matthew says, “...he was there alone.”
And so, you are not alone. You are not there.
Jesus did there in.
You are here.
“Here” is the name of god.
Goethe wrote: Names are but noise and smoke / Obscuring heavenly light.
Outside this window, morning light, dawning!
How the first letters (ya na) seem to ask question, “yes?”, “no?”
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. (—Matthew 14:23)The thought occurs— you are not alone, god is alone.
If we elide “alone” from either side of the comma, it reads— you are not, god is.
You are not — alone is.
Only alone.
So it goes!
Perhaps this is why so few people have faith in god, so few people actually believe, and move, and have their being in god,
God is all there is. God is “here.” Here is all there is.
I hear, differently, Gertrude Stein’s “There’s no there there.” Every there becomes here to someone thinking they’re going there.
Every child on a trip, so goes the meme, asks “Are we there yet?” Parents lie and say, “Almost!” Or “Soon!”
But there is no-there there. Here is no-there.
Or, perhaps, “here is not-here.”
The absence of god becomes clearer.
The death of god, to our thinking, becomes present.
God is present in this absence.
We are all alone; we are not alone.
We are all; we are not.
The objective disappears.
Nothing other appears, and there is nothing to be seen.
Matthew says, “...he was there alone.”
And so, you are not alone. You are not there.
Jesus did there in.
You are here.
“Here” is the name of god.
Goethe wrote: Names are but noise and smoke / Obscuring heavenly light.
Outside this window, morning light, dawning!