Where do you find the sacred in your life?

There is a very real sense in which I do not hold anything sacred in the original sense of the term, as in honoring divinity, as it seems highly improbable that there is any divinity in the sense that most people seem to think of it.

In another sense, I honour life, particularly human life.  I love and respect and care for my family, my community, and in a wider sense work for systems that will grant individuals the greatest degree of prosperity and freedom possible that is compatible with the survival of us all.

Within that system I believe there is need for infinite diversity.  I do not believe that there is any one right way for any of us.  I believe that there are an infinite number of possible ways to achieve anything (and an infinite number of ways not to achieve).

It seems obvious to me that some classes of systems support and empower individuals and some do not.   A corporate economic system like we have currently does not do a very good job of supportig and empowering every individual to pursue their own bliss, to make their own mistakes, to find their own truth.

Other systems are possible, and could provide greater benefit to everyone - particulalry in the areas of security and long term survival - www.solnx.org describes one such class of systems, the most powerful I have yet found, and it is not a solution to all human problems, just a solution to some of the oldest, and a tool to empower individuals in exploring and solving their own unique problems and opportunities.

In this sense, the non-divine sense, I find the sacred all around me at many levels.

The amazing complexity of the evolved ecologies that our bodies and brains are part of.

The amazing complexity of the evolved memetic cultures that we are each part of in some fashion.

The amazing individuality and awareness that is each of us as a third level, self declared, self aware "software" entities in the operating system of our culture in the computer that is our amazing multiprocessing neural network with it's holographic storage and retrieval system with its associate intuition/reason/revelation mechanism.    Understanding the levels of complexity and recursion that go into each of these systems has a very "sacred" feel to it for me, but not in the sense of any external divinity, just in the sense that such complexity and infinite potential can evolve from very simple starting conditions and following remarkably simple rules - like a Mandlebrot set in mathematics, yet so much more, and so much more profound.

Right now my wife is sitting near me in a very skimpy bikini, playing her guitar, and I have a grin on my face from ear to ear, appreciating the gift and joy that she is in my life.  It really is an amazing life we live!