12-16-2013, 12:00 AM
~The word Further is like a talisman, a power object. We must
pull it out and gaze upon it after every battle, every time we think we must be
done, that we must, at last, have arrived. As much as it may seem otherwise, there's
always Further. Get up, dust off, and gird thy loins for the next fray.
Carl Jung said he had to descend a thousand ladders to
arrive at the little clod of earth he really was. At each landing, he must have
thought himself done until his eyes adjusted and he saw that there was yet
another ladder to descend. If Dr. Jung had command of the word Further, he
would have known that there were more ladders still, and that a little clod of
earth was infinitely more than he actually was.
Whenever you're sure you've arrived, there's always Further.
The day may come when there is no more Further and you will recognize that fact
not with fanfare and tickertape, not with radiant backlighting and choirs of
angels, but with the bemused and unenthusiastic observation that you are...
DONE.
Done means done.
pull it out and gaze upon it after every battle, every time we think we must be
done, that we must, at last, have arrived. As much as it may seem otherwise, there's
always Further. Get up, dust off, and gird thy loins for the next fray.
Carl Jung said he had to descend a thousand ladders to
arrive at the little clod of earth he really was. At each landing, he must have
thought himself done until his eyes adjusted and he saw that there was yet
another ladder to descend. If Dr. Jung had command of the word Further, he
would have known that there were more ladders still, and that a little clod of
earth was infinitely more than he actually was.
Whenever you're sure you've arrived, there's always Further.
The day may come when there is no more Further and you will recognize that fact
not with fanfare and tickertape, not with radiant backlighting and choirs of
angels, but with the bemused and unenthusiastic observation that you are...
DONE.
Done means done.