I Don't Want to Reason Anymore

I have found myself enthralled with Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I didn't give much thought to the book when I first heard about it (mainly because I thought it was about math...) but when my friend asked, "Are you sure you didn't write Life of Pi? It just seems like you." I was intrigued. Since then, he has let me borrow the book and I have seen my own thoughts scrawled across the page. It's surreal.

Here are a few gems:

...atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap.

Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. 

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thanked God it always passed...The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. 

If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest it. Don't bother with the movie. Read the book.

And I'll leave you with a song I've fallen in love with. Unity by Trevor Hall.

Take me to the table where we all dine together

And pluck me from the crowd and return me to my sender

Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow

Love all serve all and create no sorrow

So many rivers but they all reach the sea

They telling me he's different but I just don't believe it

Love is the glorious and everyone shall reach it

Who ever seeks it

Seen and unseen

I don't want to reason anymore about the one I love, the one I love

I don't want to reason anymore about God above, God above

I just want to melt away, in all His grace

Drift away, into that sacred place

Where there's no more you and me, no more they and we, just unity

Yeah yeah, just unity yeah yeah, 

Just unity yeah yeah, just unity yeah yeah

Well I don't wana count the leaves of the mango tree

I just want to taste it's sweetness

So you can defeat this above and beneath this

Yeah

Come one and all, come stand tall

And whatever your approaching dance or meditation

If you got love along than you shall reach the station

You find a road, the supreme abode

In this city all hearts shine like gold

Me and Jesus, Buddah, Moses, and Gouranga

All dance around, dancing on your thunder

Drunk on the wine of love for thee

Well tell me when will I be blessed to join the bliss of your company

Blissful company goes from sea to sea

From the depths of the valley to the mountain peaks

So many stories and so many fables

Of how the king sings of how the wall wails

Jerusalem to the Holy Himalayas

From Mount Zion to the hills of Jamaica

All land is holy, all land is sacred

All shall leave this world completely naked

Completely naked, completely

I don't want to reason anymore about the one I love, the one I love

I don't want to reason anymore about God above, God above

I just want to melt away, in all His grace

Drift away, into that sacred place

Where there's no more you and me

No more they and we just unity