The cruelty of the Natural World, as it seems to me, is the hardest element of reality for me to put into the "Everything is in a state of evolving perfection" New Age wrapper. If I could ask Creation but one question, it would be "Why must gazelle's be eaten by lions?" Why pain? Isn't there some other mechanism of evolving consciousness? That said, I even feel a sense of survivors' guilt, knowing I don't worry about being eaten. And knowing that I just barely escaped the beak myself.

The introvert in me is fighting for control of my keyboard: The most romantic idea of Soulmates I have ever found: http://circleoflight.net/index.php/soulmates/soulmate-twin-flame-overview The most UN-romantic idea of Soulmates I have ever found: http://www.solvedating.com/ I contrast the images of "Perfect Couples" I meet, and feel they are meant for one another... to the Indians' arranged marriages... to the woman with 4 kids living in a slum in Bangladesh, just hoping her rickshaw driver husband returns home from the streets with something to eat. In reading what you write elsewhere, it is hard for me to imagine that you would not be hounded daily and almost hourly by friends and acquaintances... vying for your attention, trying to get past your professional mind to your sentiments, wanting your company, maybe antics ;) . - Chad