when you reach equilibrium

from The Wave Theory of Angels by Alison Macleod –

The human heart an orderly system? Don’t believe it.

Chaoticians examining beat-by-beat analyses of the human heart have found, on the contrary, ‘a surprisingly erratic pattern’ in the heart rate of healthy subjects –a pattern formerly dismissed as mere ‘noise’ in the quest for physiological order. A healthy heartbeat, it turns out, shows unexpectedly random dynamics. Health, it seems, is the natural ability of the heart to adapt to disorder; youth, the body’s ease with complexity. With fluctuations. Perturbations. Chaos.

When you reach equilibrium, you’re dead.

longing toward

from The Wave Theory of Angels by Alison Macleod –

The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.

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Desire moves all. By this I mean an inner necessity not merely to be but to become. It moves planets. It moves the angelic ranks. It moves the feeble soul of man. It is a faculty of the heart which carries all life towards that which is not yet realized in it. We evolve, the cosmos evolves, even the angels evolve, in longing.

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تشتاق الدنيا.  فقوة الجاذبية بين الأجسام هي أساس الحياة. انجذاب الأرض للشمس، القمر للأرض، لمسة يدٍ لاستدارة ثدي. وللدنيا مساراتٌ أيضاً، يرسمها دوران الأشياءِ في أفلاكِ ما تحِنُّ إليه..

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تحرك الرغبةُ كل شئ. أعني ذلك الدافع الداخلي ليس لمجرد أن نكون بل لأن نصير. هكذا تدور الكواكب، وتثور الملائكة، وتنمو النفس البشرية رغم ضعفها. الرغبة هي تلك الطاقة التي تدفع جميع أشكال الحياة نحو ما لم يتحقق بعد. فما يحركنا، ويحرك الكون، ويحرك حتى الملائكة، سوى الحنين ..

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