To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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