infinite interconnection

Hopefully this'll be the last time I write about this (there's a smaller variation of this rant in my "I Heart Huckabees" post). It's just that this belief I have rings true to everything in my life, and I want to share it with you (again). And since today is Pentecost Sunday, what better day to write about this.

First let me start off why Pentecost Sunday is a good day to share this with you. In the second reading at Mass today, a passage from 1 Corinthians is read: "As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ."

We are all connected because we have Christ within us, everyone. There's an infinite interconnection between all of us past, present, and future. Isn't that cool?

Amazingly, I was not first aware with this from "I Heart Huckabees" or even from reading Scriptures during Mass. I got it from a book, "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger, a book I read twice sometime during my junior and senior year of high school, and when I finished that book, I was enlightened. I was a changed person after realizing that I was part of everyone, and everyone was part of me because of Christ's presence in all things. I mean, the idea never really hit me until that book.

I don't want to tell you what exactly enlightened me about the revelation of Christ's presence in all things and how it was shown in the book--it would completely ruin the book for you, so you just have to read it for yourself, and I hope you become enlightened.

And on an endnote, oddly enough, this same book inspired David O. Russell, the writer and director of "I Heart Huckabees". Have a nice day and an amazing week.

currently reading:
"Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement" by Rodney Rothman (hilarious and poignant)