For the Time Being

I just finished "For the Time Being". Wow. I don't know really what else to say, but I'll try...

This book is about the human experience, the things that connect us all, on every level. The book uses two major metaphors to compare the sum of humanity; an ocean, and a desert. Within these two concepts, we see that life is contradiction. Life is nothing--if not a paradoxial conundrum. We see this in everything we do...we are utterly and entirely alone in the world, and yet we are intricately and inherently linked to all human beings who have ever lived. We are utterly unique and individual, but this makes us absolutely the same as everyone else. God is in everyone, and therefore we all share a little of the Divine Spark with everyone else.

We are carving through the present like a canoe carves through the wake of a wave. We are granules of sand, battered thoughout the world, carved by wind, moved though different situations and experiences. We are standing on history...literally. Our world is built upon the vastness of history, as time, soil, and sand buries all things. All of humanities successes, pains, tragedies and triumphs are inside ourselves.

At least, that's what I got out of it.

Tommy