If People Were Superior To Animals, They'd

But Isn't The Knowledge That Comes From Experience More Valuable Than The Knowledge That Doesn't? It Seems Fairly Obvious To Some Of Us That A Lot Of Scholars Need To Go Outside And Sniff Around - Walk Through The Grass, Talk To The Animals. That Sort Of Thing.

It's Not Surprising, Therefore, That The [bisy] Backson Thinks Of Progress In Terms Of Fighting And Overcoming. One Of His Little Idiosyncrasies, You Might Say. Of Course, Real Progress Involves Growing And Developing, Which Involves Changing Inside, But That's Something The Inflexible Backson Is Unwilling To Do.

Things Just Happen In The Right Way, At The Right Time. At Least When You Let Them, When You Work With Circumstances Instead Of Saying, 'this Isn't Supposed To Be Happening This Way,' And Trying Harder To Make It Happen Some Other Way.

Many People Are Afraid Of Emptiness, However, Because It Reminds Them Of Loneliness. Everything Has To Be Filled In, It Seems-appointment Books, Hillsides, Vacant Lots-but When All The Spaces Are Filled, The Loneliness Really Begins. Then The Groups Are Joined, The Classes Are Signed Up For, And The Gift-to-yourself Items Are Bought. When The Loneliness Starts Creeping In The Door, The Television Set Is Turned On To Make It Go Away. But It Doesn't Go Away. So Some Of Us Do Instead, And After Discarding The Emptiness Of The Big Congested Mess, We Discover The Fullness Of Nothing.

As Our Planet Takes Action To Cast Out Its Manmade Poisons And Heal Its Man-caused Wounds, Many Human Inhabitants Will No Doubt Give Way To Fear. Many Will Cling To Seemingly Powerful We're-god's-chosen-people Religions, Hoping That By So Doing They Will Be Saved From The Wrath Of A Vengeful God (not Recognizing That The Approaching "vengeance" Will In Reality Be Man's Own Actions Coming Back At Him - And Not Recognizing That The Infinite Universal Power Is Far More Than The Narrow-minded Gatekeeper Of An Exclusive Spiritual Country Club).