10-06-2010, 12:01 PM
GW, as I think about your posts, I got a mental picture of a ship that comes to port so it can pick up more people. The captain (that would be you) found a safe passage through an area that is difficult to navigate; a previously undiscovered path that avoids the storms and rocks. Now there is an invitation for others to join in the voyage.
For the ship to be docked, some heavy lines are thrown out and tied down. Communication in words is the heavy rope. The actual journey is far more graceful than the big pile of rope, more elegant than the knots. But it is all that's available to provide a connection to the dock. In order to invite us to a journey that can't be put in words, that is far lighter and more expansive than words can ever be, you have to use the heavy tool of words.
As the rest of us read, we need to remember that the voyage is not at all like a heavy tie-down rope. The knots in the rope are not the map of the journey. The mooring rope is just a point of connection and invitation.
At least this is the image that my intuition offered to me.
For the ship to be docked, some heavy lines are thrown out and tied down. Communication in words is the heavy rope. The actual journey is far more graceful than the big pile of rope, more elegant than the knots. But it is all that's available to provide a connection to the dock. In order to invite us to a journey that can't be put in words, that is far lighter and more expansive than words can ever be, you have to use the heavy tool of words.
As the rest of us read, we need to remember that the voyage is not at all like a heavy tie-down rope. The knots in the rope are not the map of the journey. The mooring rope is just a point of connection and invitation.
At least this is the image that my intuition offered to me.