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When we are young, we are like fledglings, depending on the those who are more mature to help us to do well and survive. However, at some point, we (if we are to really soar in life) have to leave the nest. As human beings, many of us never actually leave the nest; we continue to depend. We cling to the ideologies, patterns, religions, politics, traditions, and habits imprinted upon us by others; and so we never really independently soar. Most of us “feel safe,” nested in their ways and traditions. For human beings, however, true enlightenment is never merely within the circumscribed confines of a limited, little nest (or prepared space). Most of us are afraid to take the plunge, to let go of all the habits and traditions that we have been nesting in. Most merely cling to symbols, words, representations, ideologies, and learned concepts of (and including) a central “I”… and never ascend from being supposedly “safely nested” in those limited conceptions. That is why most never soar, and it is as simple as that.
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Hatched and Hatching. Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015
Unhatched. Photo by Thomas Peace c.2015
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Thanks much for the RB, Paulette. 🙂
It was my pleasure.
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Beauty
Thanks for the reblog. 🙂
Just lovely! I just hope the mother bird wasn’t pecking at you the whole time! 😀
Tom, your phots always inspires me…
Just excellent.
Keep it up.
Thanks! Hopefully, it’s more the words and their message that inspires you. 😉
very true, Thomas
Yes, Mitza. Most are copies of what they have absorbed. One cannot penetrate the beauty of the unknown if one is merely saturated with the known.
I will write this over my door, Thomas. Have a wonderful week-end, regards Mitza
Beautiful pictures and words Tom.
Thanks so much, Sonya!
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Incredible!
Amazing photos! And a very true message. We all need to try to soar 🙂