And so to lose sight of the shore suggests a sacrifice of stability, a loss of order, a certain degree of surrender to chaos and the unknown.
contraction here, my dear... chaos and the unknown ARE order... because of there is no antidote to knowledge. I blog a lot about it. There is a great evil actually prevailing in society because it induces fear about such a cosmic principle. In short, man-made laws cannot create Order.
that leaves us with: chaos induced by the ignorance of the Law versus chaos as the Law. The first one is destructive, the 2nd is creative
Thanks for your comment. You cannot say that "chaos and the unknown ARE order" any more than you can say black is white, up is down, or sinking is floating... it's a meaningless statement unless you're completely redefining the word chaos, and then you're just breaking language for your own ends, and that's not how language functions as a means of communication. You could say that chaos is the primordial state, but I guarantee that you do not live in chaos. Unless you are some formless entity from before the earth was born, that exists outside of time-space and you just drop into Steemit every once and a while for a laugh.
My post has nothing to do with "man-made laws", it is about a fundamental organizing principle of the universe as articulated by many people throughout the ages, and known by many names.
I think chaos can be profound and transformative, it can also lead to death, or complete dissolution of self. My post here is simply about the courage to let go of habituated order to glimpse the mystery of the unknown, and invite a bit of fortune into one's life.