mamabunny

'The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery--even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature. '

Now, you ask, how do you feel? I once told the woman i loved, "You feel, therefore you ARE" and she kissed me, and placed herself on my folded legs. She renewed me in innocence, and i took it from her, or i thought i did.

Perhaps, "i feel pain, therefore i am." That, in the most un-emo-ness sense. So, i say to that Einstein-ism, pain is the most real above real, Holy thing. Pain follows everthing, but Pain proceeds everthing, and is eternal in its survival of everthing; whether organic, or non-organic.

Pain:
An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
Suffering or distress.
pains The pangs of childbirth.
pains Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.
Informal. A source of annoyance; a nuisance.

I find it so amazing that it is so great to include Birth pain, a part of the definition of pain.

Birth:
The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother.
The act or process of bearing young; parturition: the mare's second birth.
The circumstances or conditions relating to this event, as its time or location: an incident that took place before my birth; a Bostonian by birth.

The set of characteristics or circumstances received from one's ancestors; inheritance: strong-willed by birth; acquired their wealth through birth.
Origin; extraction: of Swedish birth; of humble birth.
Noble or high status: persons of birth.
A beginning or commencement. See Synonyms at beginning.


What is the least of your mystery?

PS: I edited this several times, due to over-gayness.