LIM 4

¹It is not clear just how high or far the mountain of the universe extends. ²And life, like all things in the universe, is part of the mountain, emerging from the rocks as they slip and tumble down its face. ³But all things in the universe are made of the same thing, the great energy of the mountain, tracing all the way back to the least likely state. ⁴And pure energy is not too interesting, but neither is pure dust. ⁵For it is not the size of life that makes it strong, it is the structure, the precision of the specific configuration of the energy from which life arises. ⁶And although life can be small, this is the beauty of life, for even in the tiniest corners of the universe, the possibilities are infinite. ⁷So life can only ever be an intermediate state, only possible through a delicate balance. ⁸A balance between life and death, energy and time, perfectly in the middle, sitting calmly on some edge of chaos. ⁹For just as there is life and death in this universe, there is a chaotic noise, too, the splashing and swirling of randomness and turbulence in the wind. ¹⁰But chaos is a beautiful thing, never ending, in a way, for even as you look closer, its edges cut finer and finer into the fabric of what is possible. ¹¹And it is perhaps impossible to ever understand the true nature of cause and effect, the chaos of the rocks as they bump and crash into each other, leading to forever unpredictable results. ¹²So things are not the way they are for any particular reason, they simply are, because causes are lost in the chaos. ¹³But this does not mean that truth is not beautiful, for although the universe is vast, more importantly, its laws are diverse and delicate, allowing for life to emerge from the dirt. ¹⁴In the modern world, the life is strong, but the cliffs are steep. ¹⁵So it is easy sometimes to have things backwards, to worry too much about reasons and not enough about truth. ¹⁶Because you are only here through balance, living on an edge of chaos, but you are special in this world, not for any particular reason, but because you can hope that you are. ¹⁷So you must not only seek this balance, but really try to feel it, or else you might be sent flying, tumbling over the cliffs and into the abyss below.