Our Greatest Sin

Our Greatest Sin

What is our greatest sin? Our greatest sin is that we lack vision.

Our greatest sin is that we became gods, but we never became godly.

Unlike Faust, we do have the means to sweep back the ocean and make dry land. We have power but we lack vision. It is not that God looked and saw that it was very good. The goodness was in the seeing, in the vision. Vision is seeing before there is yet anything to look at.


Our second greatest sin is that, lacking vision, we do not even go in
search of vision. We do not look for vision, and we look askance at
visionaries because we do not care. None so blind as those who will not see. None so deaf as those who will not here. The age of miracles is when the blind see, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. But we are the miracle of the walking dead, who neither see nor hear. We are not Moseswithout his staff. We are Moses who leans upon his staff and does nothing.


We have laid down our instrumentality upon the shores of Babylon, and we weep, not for Sion, but for our lack of tears. Lack of tears is the greatest draught. Lack of hunger is the greatest famine. As Rumi said, Do not seek water. Seek thirst!" Water is everywhere, but without thirst,all the water in the world is useless.