“The goal of life is to make
your heartbeat match the beat
of the universe, to match your
nature with nature.”
Joseph Campbell
I have been writing a lot of about death and suffering the last 9 months. It probably was brought on by the death of my son Peter last August. Writing about joy and humor was refreshing tonight. The combination of joy and humor with suffering and death seems to be natural and healthy. This might explain why the picture story “Drone and Clowns Storm the Bastille” has received a lot of ‘hits’ on the worldwide web.
A picture-quote was sent to me today that may also explain, in part, why death and joy go together. The quote from Joseph Campbell reads:“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.” In nature the sorrow of death is followed by the joy of life and vice versa.
Perhaps to be a ‘natural woman or man’ means is directly our lives to match the heartbeat of nature and accept the fact that in life, like in nature, joy and humor goes with suffering and death.
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