I really respect the intelligence of cats. I was looking into my cat's eyes today and thinking, this cat has never once questioned why he's here. But he has a pretty good life.
The answer to the question of why he's here is completely beyond his ability to comprehend anyway, even if he did ask it - and it's also beyond MY ability to comprehend; just like it's truly beyond my ability to comprehend why I'M here.
The difference between me and my cat is that at least he seems to have the sense to know this, and just live his life.
Though I can't find the quotation right now, I believe it was Bill W. who talked about the feeling of being just a very minute, yet important cog in a cosmic machine - something like that. I've felt like that before at times, and always gotten a peaceful, serene feeling when that thought enters my mind. Unfortunately the feeling doesn't usually last very long.
The nice thing about it is, I don't really need to know any specifics. I don't need to know exactly which part I am, what my exact function is, how I fit in with the rest of the "machinery", how that machinery functions, what its purpose is, or anything else. Just the feeling that I am a small, yet still important, part of some greater purpose which I need not comprehend, is enough to fill me with a feeling of well-being.
Kind of like the feeling my cat probably feels when he's sunbathing by the window.
Lucky son-of-a-bitch.
-- Edited by FlyingSquirrel on Sunday 4th of July 2010 06:27:33 AM
1. Cats brains are in a perpetual state of "Alpha"....that is what we all work our butts off to get to in deep meditation. Cats are really "lucky ducks"... (according to Dr. House)
2. Second thing that came into tiny brain was the saying of "Wisdom only starts when we begin to comprehend that what we "think" we know is always wrong, and we really do not have the ability as humans to truly "KNOW" anything, well anything of real substance, as an example a Prist insistentently asked the one of the greatest Philosophers of our time, Joseph Campbell, "Do you "KNOW" if there is a GOD?.... Joseph Campbell smiled, and paused, and then answered with, "Father, if I could answer that question, which I cannot, what then, would be the point of FAITH.???
Sunday Morning SOBER rant....
HAPPY 4THOFJULY TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
How Great it is to be alive and Sober today!!!!!
-- Edited by Just Toni on Sunday 4th of July 2010 09:28:30 AM
It's a great life, albeit a short one, but a great one. My siamese cat "Mojo" , never flinches, is never undecided, although he does morph into a gothic statue and melt you with his stationary steely blue eyes.
What an absolutely delicious example of the sober alcoholic mind...insanity wearing a sober cape and nonchalantly murmuring..."It could happen!!" Boy am I sooo grateful for not burning the abstract perception with all of that rot gut. LOL. I am the riches of spectators here and grateful beyond words.
Isn't refering to a cat as a lucky son of a bitch a bit of detachment from reality?
I often just love to sit here and listen I always "get it".
We brought home a stormdrain-cat that caught me in a good mood on a snowy night. Her name is Grace. She got out and got pregnant before we had $100 to get her fixed. Now we have kittens to unload. They're just starting to wander around and one of them has taken a strong liking to my shoes and my feet. His name is Fungus. I might keep him. He has good taste in shoes.
Yes! I have often thought the same when pondering about my beautiful cat! 
(according to Dr. House)
