Controlled Folly

Apr 23, 2007 | Poetry

I have lately been thinking about the motivation to create and innovate, serve others, and add goodness to the world—what I call “horizontal growth.” On the other hand, if this world is a dream we are collectively dreaming, and we can oscillate out of it every other moment into a direct experience of the divine, is there a purpose to improving it or is it already perfect in its original state?