The devil that is in details is not invited, but is almost always created by them.
One tries to do something. The very act creates consequences One balks at doing anything. Everything reels in the vacuum, the omission creates.
But what is really happening? Why is this so?
And if the devil resides in the details, where are the damn angels?
Most people working with intention -- trying to live examined lives, looking for opportunities to help -- come to realize that this play of consequences is always complex. We rarely compass what we are doing. Nothing is ever "accomplished" or completed, but it falls apart or entropy savages the working parts. Action is what you "try" to do. And you cannot just sit there either, just "being". Because you have no idea where you came from, and you'll get hungry and sleepy. You'll just be "trying" to Be, and you might as well "try" to do something with it.
Perhaps we should get to know our devils. One reason science has been such a powerful tool is that it is not content with the abstractions of the process, but lays out the steps. By measuring intervals, weights, and dimensions, and by identifying the constituent parts, we are able to control the demons. Although the devil is still living in the complexity, the scoundrel can be analyzed--pulling apart his parts and appearances.
And notice the relationship between the "abstract" devil, and the details we think of as the perceived reality? There is this play between what is not real and what is real, where the real things create a piffer in the mind, and next thing you know, your mind is now distracted. And the distracting unreal thing held in your mind becomes more real than the things you are holding in your hands.
One tries to do something. The very act creates consequences One balks at doing anything. Everything reels in the vacuum, the omission creates.
But what is really happening? Why is this so?
And if the devil resides in the details, where are the damn angels?
Most people working with intention -- trying to live examined lives, looking for opportunities to help -- come to realize that this play of consequences is always complex. We rarely compass what we are doing. Nothing is ever "accomplished" or completed, but it falls apart or entropy savages the working parts. Action is what you "try" to do. And you cannot just sit there either, just "being". Because you have no idea where you came from, and you'll get hungry and sleepy. You'll just be "trying" to Be, and you might as well "try" to do something with it.
Perhaps we should get to know our devils. One reason science has been such a powerful tool is that it is not content with the abstractions of the process, but lays out the steps. By measuring intervals, weights, and dimensions, and by identifying the constituent parts, we are able to control the demons. Although the devil is still living in the complexity, the scoundrel can be analyzed--pulling apart his parts and appearances.
And notice the relationship between the "abstract" devil, and the details we think of as the perceived reality? There is this play between what is not real and what is real, where the real things create a piffer in the mind, and next thing you know, your mind is now distracted. And the distracting unreal thing held in your mind becomes more real than the things you are holding in your hands.
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