DIALOGUES

Beauty

2006-04-17T07:55:00.000-07:00

2: Man, would you look at that?

1: At what?

2: At that.

1: What of it?

2: Isn't it something?

1: It is something.

2: Wouldn't you like to have some of that?

1: Isn't looking at it enough?

2: Well, no.

1: It should be, shouldn't it?

2: But, I mean, just look at that. I can't stop looking and I can't stay here forever. I have to have some, that way I can take it with me.

1: Take it with you in your spirit.

2: That's not going to help me. That will not satisfy my want. To recognize that it has attracted me is to recognize that I must have it.

1: To feel such an attraction is to misunderstand.

2: What?

1: Desire is the root of all evil. Desire leads to misery.

2: Desire leads to ownership.

1: Another word for misery.

2: You make no sense, I mean just look at that.

1: I am looking.

2: Isn't it something.

1: It is something.

Nature

2006-03-31T13:31:00.000-08:00

1: Don't touch that.

2: I need to.

1: You can't.

2: Why not?

1: because you'll break it; how many time do I have to explain?

2: I won't break it, I might change it a little, but I won't break it. I don't think it's breakable.

1: Oh, it's breakable alright.

2: I don't think it is, and besides I have to touch it.

1: You don't have to.

2: Yes, I do. So do you, so does everyone.

1: Well, I try not to unless I need to for survival.

2: Well, then , I need to for survival.

1: You don't.

2: I do.

1: Right now, this minute, to make it to the next, you don't.

2: This is silly. You're not listening.

1: I am listening.

2: You are not. You are preaching. You are arguing for a paradox without any sense of irony. Something stands in for something else.

1: Your greed stands in for natural harmony.

2: If you say so.

1: Don't touch that!

Spirit

2006-03-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

1: Your absence of any sustained and careful attention to your spiritual life is dangerous. Disturbing even.

2: That’s because I don’t have a spiritual life.

1: You think. But you do. You just call it something else.

2: I don’t.

1: You do. You call it reason. You call it memory. You call it thought. But something in the way you’ve come to understand your own inner voice, won’t let you call it spirit.

2: That’s idiodic. It makes no sense.

1: It makes perfect sense.

2: Smacking you in the face is what makes perfect sense.

1: To your spirit.

<*smack*>