'Greater' Glasgow

For most, the idea of a Greater Glasgow is an administrative one and nothing more. For me, for whom administration is a complete anathema, Greater Glasgow refers not to its politics and districts but to its metaphysic enormity, an enormity that transcends any geographies and physical appearances and which instead concentres itself upon the depths of Glasgow as a universal entity. When you understand this sense of 'greatness' (not as merely large but as infinitely profound) you no longer have to go out into the world, the world comes to you. Once rid of administrations and politics - the city/the world (which is also the universe) appears where you are. 

'Take your time and be everywhere you are,' wrote the Irish philosopher John O' Donohue in Divine Beauty. When this happens, greatness occurs. This is fundamental when I speak of a Slow Flow of Glasgow and/or a Greater Glasgow.