Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
you call them the shortest pointers in the world, which are the
most succinct word concepts that point at ultimate reality. You
didn't use silence in there. Now you're a smart boy, I know you've
thought about it, how come not silence or peace, because are the
two words the Wizard over here uses basically more than any to
point. But you didn't use silence or peace, is there a reason for
that?
MORGAN CARAWAY: Well, it's just words, it's all just words. I
wouldn't say anything I said is any better than anybody else's way
of expressing it. And the Truth is I think about that book, and to
me it's like I didn't even write it. It's like it wrote itself. I can talk
about all the ideas in it, but it's just the ideas came up and I put
them down on paper, and you could use all kinds of different
words, probably other people would have chosen a whole different
list of them. And it really doesn't matter; I think that's the main
point. The pointers are only good as pointers, but if we think the
pointers are what they're pointing at, and then we're missing the
point. But, yes, I don't know. To me silence and peace, these seem
like qualities. As we know life can be very exciting and loud.
We've been near the beach for a few days here, and the ocean is so
restless, it's just always in motion. But there's something about
the noise of it that's so soothing. It's like a strange dichotomy; it's
both things at the same time. And that's the way life is I guess, on
the surface it can be very crazy and active, but I guess the core of
it, the heart is always at peace, like John was saying.
WIZARD: Yes, the depth of the ocean is peaceful.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Right, the ripples on the surface and the
waves don't hurt the depth, or they don't disturb the depth.
WIZARD: And there are many, many waves and forms at the
edge, and no two are alike.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Each one totally unique.
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