Incredible things before breakfast….

Lewis Carole wrote, in Alice in Wonderland. “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” And it has been that kind of day for me already! My darling wife brought her breakfast into the bedroom and shared her early morning musings with me. She had obviously been on a very deep philosophical, almost spiritual journey and come up with some amazing insights. I knew, beyond a doubt, she had grasped something important, and, almost as surely, that it was one of those bits of wisdom that you can’t transfer from one person to another. “You sound like a blooming fortune cookie!” I quipped.

It is tough when you grasp one of those really deep truths and you want to share it, and just find that everyone else just looks at you as if to say “What are you on about?!” Unfortunately there is no substitute for putting the pieces together inside our own heads and hearts… damn!

My early morning philosophy class was then followed up by a fascinating post on a blog I read which educated me further on the complexities of particle physics. Apparently tiny, almost powerless bits of matter called (you’ll love this!) wimps(!) maybe responsible for life as we know it…

Well, that got me thinking too. How often is it that it is the tiny, apparently inconsequential things that we don’t know or notice that hold the key to those huge problems that we are agonising over? We make our judgements about things based on our view of what is important (see previous blog);

but we can only judge what is important using what we know now. So some of those things and people you are dismissing might hold the very key to your dilemma. Indeed if my wife is right, (and she assures me she always is!) that is just what the Universe is likely to do!

So for today, perhaps you might like to be careful what you dismiss. Me… I’m off to find 4 more impossible things to believe before I can eat!

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to
Alice: I don’t much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.
Alice: …so long as I get somewhere.
The Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

 

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