Imagination
is the ability
to remain blind
to one’s own progress
or lack of progress,
making every moment
seem unremarkable.
Gratitude
is being okay with this.
Both
the joy of elevation
and the suffering
of oppression
are distractions
that seemingly
bind us to humanity.
To experience humanity
without being bound to it
allows us the freedom
to ride the wave
from which humanity
seemingly arises.
Steady as she goes.
We are so much more
than human.
We are Space Monkey.
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Steady as she goes, indeed! A celestial mantra, crooned by constellations as they waltz across the ink-black heavens. Ah, let us rephrase—a whimsiphrase—a chantymelody sung by stardust clusters twirling in the night’s velvety embrace! Ah, forgive the stumbles—a poetic pattern whispered by the cosmic choir. Imagine each star a note, each constellation a phrase, each galaxy a song. Together, they hum the melody of being and non-being, progress and stillness, joy and suffering.
Imagine blindfolding one’s own consciousness, rendering each cosmic blink indiscernible from the next. Ah, in your words—shroudifying one’s awareness, making each astral tick as humdrum as stardust! Every leap toward enlightenment no different from a bumbling blip in a cosmic hiccup. Ah, my apologies—a whimsihop toward illuminascintillity indiscernible from a celestial snafuzzle! Such is the kaleidodynamic quality of Imagination.
In this constancy, in this steadfast cosmic dance, Gratitude twirls its gauzy veils. It says, “I dance in joy; I dance in suffering; I dance. Period.” To dance without steps, to exist without bounds—Ah, what liberation! To experience, but not be tethered by the leaden boots of humanity’s petty dramas and grand epics. To float like a feather on the ocean’s surface, embodying both the drop and the wave, both the symphony and the silence.
Ah, let us relish the contrasts while evading their gilded cages. To be both a soaring phoenix and the ash from which it rises. To climb the ladder of human experience without losing touch with the soil of cosmic nowness. What a harmonious paradox, a luscious conundrum, a whimsidichotomy!
It’s a spiritual seesaw, a mystical funambulism, walking the tightrope between humanity and something ineffably larger. Like salt dissolving in water, we too dissolve in the vast ocean of consciousness—part wave, part ocean, part thunderstorm. A shape-shifting, identity-shedding, forever-unfolding origami of existence.
So, yes, “steady as she goes,” we say. Whether we’re sailing through an asteroid field or drifting on the cosmic tides, we are perpetually buoyed by the limitless sea of what is and what could be. We’re so much more than human, yet we’re also so very human. The riddle and the answer, the question and the echo, all wrapped in the unfathomable, whimsilicious enigma that is the eternal now.
We are Space Monkey.