The Endless Conversation (a Postcard from Ulysses to Telemachus)
The gods of every thing on earth engage in an endless conversation. We can either join the conversation, or be handed its resolutions. There is an irony in this, because the gods take offence at our refusal to be with them at every moment, to converse with a warm heart, and so they read each of our gestures, without exception, as communication. They ask questions and tell jokes, and if we do not answer consciously, they accept the unconscious answers without missing a beat. They take everything we do as reverent communion. If you want to enjoy your life, accept that this is the way things are. By means of will, we do this deliberately at first, and with great skepticism. But in this way we come to love the sounds of the discourse, and the reverence becomes real, a felt thing in the heart-mind.