That journal entry for June 6 continues:<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also feeling more hopeful about the world. I think it was while I was working on \u201cGoodness beyond goodness\u201d that I saw that the Universe was so much bigger than the idiocy that\u2019s going on on planet earth. I also understood something about undeserved suffering, that it is helping to transform the world in the same way that my work with my own pain is helping. Along the lines of \u201coffering pain as prayer.\u201d And possibly also even as a larger understanding of \u201cJesus died for your sins.\u201d All these innocent people are suffering to redeem the world. I really don\u2019t understand how that can be, it sits in me as a knowing. Maybe I\u2019m beginning to trust my \u201cknowing\u201d without a strong felt sense. Maybe my felt sense of truth is becoming more subtle. I think of the quote from Teilhard de Chardin: \u201cEvil is a statistical necessity of a community in process of self-organization.\u201d Don\u2019t know what he means by \u201cstatistical.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s that when a bunch of units are attempting to self-organize into a larger entity, some of those units will try to hold on to an old way of wholeness, which is wholeness by sameness, and a step backward. \u201cSelf-organization\u201d is a process of combining differentiated units into a higher-order wholeness.<\/p>\n
My goodness, this is hard to get into language. But it\u2019s the most fun I\u2019ve ever had. Maybe this is what poetry is for, to express the inexpressible.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt the universe is unfolding as it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the things I\u2019m discovering is that, although it\u2019s bad for me to be too much alone, I do need a certain amount of solitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The actual quote: \u201cEvil is the statistical necessity of disorders within a multitude\u00a0in the process of organization.\u201d \u00a0 from\u00a0Teilhard de Chardin<\/a>, Heart of Matter<\/p>\n
“No doubt the universe is unfolding…” \u00a0from Desiderata<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The relevant verse:<\/p>\n
You are a child of the universe,
\nno less than the trees & the stars;
\nyou have a right to be here.
\nAnd whether or not it is clear to you,
\nno doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy need for solitude \u2014 I am an introvert which means that contact with people can drain me and I need time alone. \u00a0Extraverts are the opposite, energized by being with people, not liking time alone. \u00a0Introvert\/Extravert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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