Reverence

A quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah, I felt like sharing again:*

Life changed those irascible wastes into shapes of grace and movement, he [Paul] thought. That was the message of the desert. Contrast stunned him with realization. He wanted to turn to the aides massed in the sietch entrance, shout at them: if you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!

Given our propensity to worship only those we see as better than ourselves, or those whom we can benefit from, I found this rather profound.

* – Was on blog 2.0, the previous blog.

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A Buddhist, father and Japanophile / Koreaphile.
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