Conceptualizing the Wheel (as Personal Discovery)

Morning Thoughts #118

Track any thought far enough, and you’ll find the more it carries, the more it rolls. To understand much, we must discover for ourselves (within ourselves) the idea of the wheel. What is natural is what balances. Wisdom is the discovery of a previously unknown corresponding side or wing. The conceptual halving of the accepted whole.

Think deeply to become an archaeologist of symmetry. How much we’ve been lugging around that we can learn to attach wheels to! History cannot walk itself back to you, its sustained pace is evidence of its cyclical nature! What departs never to return should have never been to begin with, while organic life lives to renew itself.

Progress is the great lie of humanity, and its unironic (true believing) use is a telltale sign of shortsightedness. Progress, that is, in the sense that the climb is eternally upward, that the present eclipses every past, that today’s peak doesn’t hide another valley behind it. No, the earth is not flat, nor are any of its greater workings. There are so many mysteries that can’t be pinned down because they are always rolling! What a great return awaits us, but not in the sense of an investment!