Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
A new year, apart, shared
A new year, apart,
shared
Hot rain searing part-closed eyelids
Shadows hiding in dark long grass
Unravelling to meet the bells’ joyous swing
The fantastic and the real worlds enmesh
And time loses touch with itself and sleeps,
Elastic, enfolded, in reverie
The revellers, unexpectedly released,
Touch cells across the gap
Laugh amazement
And fix the memory
Knowing that all the debris drops away,
Leaving the essence
Entire, entwined, in the eyes of the heart
(New Year’s Day, 2013)
New Year's Message from Richard, via Rohr
Here is something to help me, and you too I hope, grow in mutual esteem in 2013 (actually, it HAS to include you, as I cannot grow in esteem mutually on my own). I read it a while back and it keeps coming back to me, demanding attention. I think this must mean that it is significant:
BRIDGE BUILDING
Somewhere on our journey we stop trying to explain reality and instead to deeply experience it. This puts us in touch with feelings that we would change our lives for, such as desire, compassion, anger, friendship, loyalty, and love. Such feelings come out of the great unconscious, but they are still largely hidden and confused, and often scary.
We can't risk invading this unconscious land until we've developed a clear sense of identity, an appropriate sense of our own and others' boundaries, and some sense of order and control. This is the task of the first half of life.
Like a bridge across the river between the unconscious and the conscious, our soul mediates and carries the images from one realm to the other. The soul also mediates between the body and the spirit, and builds a bridge to the other side so the conscious and the unconscious can walk back and forth. This is soul work. Opening up this bridge is the task of the second half of life. (On the Threshold of Transformation, Day 130, p. 136)
BRIDGE BUILDING
Somewhere on our journey we stop trying to explain reality and instead to deeply experience it. This puts us in touch with feelings that we would change our lives for, such as desire, compassion, anger, friendship, loyalty, and love. Such feelings come out of the great unconscious, but they are still largely hidden and confused, and often scary.
We can't risk invading this unconscious land until we've developed a clear sense of identity, an appropriate sense of our own and others' boundaries, and some sense of order and control. This is the task of the first half of life.
Like a bridge across the river between the unconscious and the conscious, our soul mediates and carries the images from one realm to the other. The soul also mediates between the body and the spirit, and builds a bridge to the other side so the conscious and the unconscious can walk back and forth. This is soul work. Opening up this bridge is the task of the second half of life. (On the Threshold of Transformation, Day 130, p. 136)
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