Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

~ Live & Learn

And if consciousness is being gradually perfected, then the area of choice is being gradually enlarged, isn’t it? That’s why, if I believe in order, I have to believe in search too… The alternative’s petrifaction, isn’t it? Everything would just stop. So we have to risk disorder to keep the order of the universe expanding and consciousness growing. Doesn’t it thrill you to think that, an inch at a time, we may be creeping toward wider and wider consciousness, until eventually man may just sort of emerge out of the tunnel and be in the full open?

― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things 

16 thoughts on “Monday Morning Wake-Up Call”

      1. I´m about to read Wolf Willow which takes place in the part of Canada I´m from. It´s been on my shelves for a while (from my dad´s library) and your post reminded me to read it. Thanks!

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  6. I’m very hopeful that your country is slowly inching forward to a better understanding, a better world, a wider consciousness, towards the light at the end of the tunnel… (and God forbid, NOT an oncoming train!).

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  7. “to risk disorder to keep the order of the universe expanding and consciousness growing” seems like too much to ask of us at times. Yet, thinking of disorder as an opportunity to hone our discernment through exercising choice offers us positive purpose. Or, when life turns our lives upside down, time to search for the best choices… Stegner, what a guy!

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