Hobbies

_ Do you‘ve any hobbies?

_ Me?

_ Yeah you.

_ I like to not talk to strangers.

_ That’s a good one. I like to tinker with Einstein’s mathematical formulas regarding the universe.

_ Einstein? He of the second best hairdo ever in the history of humankind?

_ Second? Who’s first?

_ Everyone else tied for first.

_ I’ve re-worked his theory of relativity in order to bring it into the realm most readily accessible to the person in the street.

_ I’m thinking thoughts of chai...

_ According to my calculations, which are based on E=mc2, our physical weight is nothing compared to the weight of our presence in coming face to face with our brethren.

_ So the ‘down‘ as in ‘You’re bringing me down’, is a lot closer to China than previously thought.

_ Our presence is nearly six thousand times the weight, as far as being influential goes, as is our physical load upon the surface of the Earth.

_ I’m going to re-commit myself to not talking to strangers.

_ No worries. I’ll order your chai from this here stranger working the steam machine.

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... Einstein had a social conscience and a sense of humor that dwarfed our ability to understand his scientific inquiries. He is on record as saying the following:

“ I’m not sure what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“ There are two things that are infinite: The universe, and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

“ Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with assuagement of pain. One has to keep this in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development.”

... Love, though it be ‘a many-splendored thing’, is, all the same, just a ‘thing’. Don’t run from it; don’t let it blind you. We live in a world of ‘things’; we, ourselves, are a ‘thing’. Open to it and embrace that which is, freeing things from their ‘thingness’.   


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