behind the intellectualizing of the mystique
alice discovers paradox Sometimes the mountain is hidden from me in veils of cloud, sometimes I am hidden from the mountain in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue, when I forget or refuse to go down...
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allow life’s fragility It is in the depths of your life that you will discover the invisible necessity that has brought you here. When you begin to decipher this, your gift & giftedness come alive....
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clever sky G.I. Gurdjieff distinguished between an automatic sort of awareness, in which we spend much of our lives, & true consciousness, which begins with self-consciousness, a state he called...
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wan dreams of light The mystical night is not mere night, absence of light. It is a night which is sanctified by the presence of an invisible light (to which our visible, sacramental fire burning in...
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fragile beauty Spirituality is a hard thing to define. But Annie Dillard has given us a vivid image of what authentic spirituality is about: ‘In the deeps are the violence & terror of which...
View Articlein between here & there…..
running into life….bring it on….. Make no mistake, I still struggle. But the rewards are clear: I’m all here. I’m aware of what is happening in me, in my life. It’s not hidden anymore, so I have...
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climbing trees to know their deepest emotion How can you set your direction when you can’t see any clear harbor? How can you navigate through difficult waters when you’re swamped by overwhelming...
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isolation Saint Teresa of Avila goes to great lengths to remind us that there is such a thing as inner light. ‘We are conditioned,’ she says, ‘to perceive only external light. We forget that there is...
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An unimaginable, indescribable loss has taken place. It has inflicted a wound so deep that numbness and excruciating pain are the material of which it is made. Everyone experiences many losses...
View Articlethe fertile descension & the aftermath of becoming
Despair’s journey is both a search for renewed meaning and a call to grieve our losses. Though it may seem sudden and precipitous, despair has its roots. Long-standing grief over unnamed or un-mourned...
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