“Even the smallest feline is a masterpiece.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Have you ever watched a kitten play?
When kittens overflow with energy, which is quite often, they play. They run. They bolt. They become possessed by a condition we call the “zoomies.”
She sits quietly. But suddenly: Zoom! Zoom!
Around the room. Around the house. She chases the air, and imagines a mouse. She runs, at top speed, in random directions until the energy is, temporarily, dissipated by the burst of pleasure.
That is play.
There’s a popular meme that one should, “work like a lion.” But I say, “work like a kitten.”
Somehow, we’ve forgotten how to play and thus, how to work. Work like a kitten: Rest when you need to rest. Watch when you need to watch. Think when you need to think. Eat when you need to eat. Indulge your curiosity when you are curious and, if you are a kitten, you are always curious. And, most importantly, when you need to play, then play. When one works, creatively, in this way, work is rarely anything but play. Play in creative work, just as in the kitten, is the pleasurable release of excess energy.
What I’ve realized is that this isn’t just about kittens or work or what we’ve forgotten.
It’s about what we are: We are all a part of the universe, made of the same chemical matter as stars, planets, comets, and other “inorganic” matter.
We are each literally a part of the universe watching itself. Likewise, a playing kitten is part of the universe playing with itself; the Universe enjoying itself in an ecstatic moment of intense pleasure.
And since matter is energy, these acts of play are nothing more and nothing less than energy swirling, teasing, and playing with itself for no other reason than to have this experience.
What if God “works like a kitten?”
It feels evident that “God,” whatever that is, must be everywhere, which means God must be every thing: Everything. All energy. All matter. All encompassing. All One. One Song – the Uni-verse. One infinite bundle of unlimited energy.
Physicists talk about the “big bang” as starting from an infinitesimally small point of incomprehensible energy density: A singularity; an infinity.
What can one do with infinite energy when it is caged in a single pixel?
Like a kitten, such infinite energy must be utilized. Experienced. Zoom! Zoom! Boom! Boom!
Play.
We see constant division and reunification of different types of energy into different configurations just for the eternal pleasure of it.
For what else could infinite energy do? Infinite experiences. Infinite creation. Infinite destruction.
Infinite play.
So, while a kitten is a part of the universe, a part of God, playing with itself, so is everything else.
Perhaps we shouldn’t call God, “the creator.” That seems to limit His role; for God is the creator, the destroyer, and the creation, playing with every possibility that ever was and ever will be.
Perhaps instead, we should call God The Player.
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain
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