People sometimes seem to delight in telling another person: "Don't be so sensitive!" It is true of course that each of us needs to identify ourselves more with the vast, stable core of our inner self than with the more superficial aspects of our personality. However, there is a sense in which each moment of our lives is delicate and fragile: partly existing, partly not-existing. Emerson once exclaimed: "The world is so beautiful, I can HARDLY believe it exists!" Indeed, each moment of our lives partakes in this quality of "hardly." Like an echo emerging out of nowhere, it is improbable in its existence, yet THERE IT IS in all of its glory, anyway!
Photo: Delicate blossoms of alpine bog laurel appear in a marsh near Lion Lake #1, with Mt. Alice in the background; Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 15, 2012
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