The Slow-Burning Phoenix

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Shot-down and reborn in flames
another of life’s eternal games
I rise up and begin again
another day of health and pain
 
My heart flies first it seeks a home
an end to too much time alone
chapter and chapter in that tome
and so I follow, and so I roam
 
and in the end I seek the fire
better than this muck and mire
to dream to finally expire
to this final goal I do expire
 
yet back to life I rise and rise
no one sees what’s in my eyes
hope and longing, the reprise
on and on with no surprise
 
A sign of hope, I am for all
They listen closely for my call
to rise again from funeral pall
a new day’s dawn, sun’s fiery ball

— G A Rosenberg
 

I speak a lot about change and how each moment is a new beginning. We can rise phoenix like over and over no matter how many times we crash and burn. Each moment of our existence becomes a new beginning that everything that came before was merely a prologue. The brass ring of a new start is out there for all of us. All we need to do is reach out and grab it. Reach out.. and admit that we are willing to make a change either small or complete. The phoenix needs to burn in order to rise again and that takes fuel, a sacrifice of who we are for the person who we may become. What do we want to change and what are we willing to give up to make it happen? Sometimes it is only the doubts that we can change yet each of us has this ability within us, It takes resolve. If we don’t burn away the parts in ourselves that no longer serve us, the universe has a tendency to do it for us. Thus we all become the Slow-Burning Phoenix.
Blessings, G

 

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New Growth FormingNew Growth Forming by G A Rosenberg

 

Healing RingHealing Ring by G A Rosenberg

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  1. Your words are just what i needed to hear right now. There is a need in me that needs to be change, overhauled. I must walk into the flames or burst in flames like the phoenix and rise again, anew. Time for change. A renewal that may be painful & yet I have no idea what it is. Maybe I need to be even more honest with myself and not let anyone block the direction my life in moving in. There are too many outside influences effecting/affecting my life. As I have said before your art is amazing. I am never wrong about that. How you do your magic surprises me every time I view new pieces. Need to go back on some of your posts to catch up, Schedule crazy. Writing & creating. Not sleeping. Not enough time. Good to check in. peace. jk 😎

    1. and yet… when someone willingly throws themselves in the flames of being where contradictions are so evident, imagine how pure the you that comes out of all this will be…

      I love you and your energy,
      G

          1. Is that similar to what Jung says about dreams, you are all the characters in your dreams. Therapists seem to say that also. I thank you once again for being so generous with your kind words. Namaste. jk

    1. Thank you so much… I love your blog as well… I find myself in different parts of Vancouver and occasionally see an area you have photographed

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