Up the Spiral

 

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett

 

Whether it be in our memories, our imaginations or in the physical we always return to our beginnings and yet we don’t. We have had many experiences along the way and had many journeys. We are hardly the same people we were when we were eighteen or even the same as we were yesterday. If we are alive than there has been growth and we can view our earlier environment with new insight. Even in the cases where we have become more calcified and less open to learning and growth a return to our beginnings when we were younger and more idealistic can inspire us to do better. In reality there is never a time when we come full circle back to our beginnings because in actuality it is a spiral and we look upon our starting point from a higher octave.
Blessings, G

 

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Night's WorkingNight’s Working by G A Rosenberg

 

Back to the Start

 

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett

 

Last summer my partner and I went on a cruise that ended in Venice, Italy. Venice, with its mazes, canals and catacombs and sense of history quickly became one of my favourite places in the world. While there we went with friends on a search for a restaurant that was recommended to us by the concierge of the hotel we were staying at. We wandered for a good hour and a half passing restaurant after restaurant in search of the correct one. After a while one of my friends complained that we were going in circles and I said “No, actually we’re going in spirals. Each time we come back we know another way not to go.”
Quite often in life it seems like we are spinning our wheels, putting forth great effort without getting anywhere. In reality, anything we do good, bad or otherwise has the opportunity to teach us if we are willing to learn. I have put a great effort in my life in learning what roads do not work for me and each unintended turn gives me more knowledge of what works for me. Some parts of my life might not be as fun to explore even getting it wrong as Venice was yet it’s much better than never turning at all.
Blessings, G

 

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The Shattered TowerThe Shattered Tower by G A Rosenberg

 

RenewalRenewal by G A Rosenberg

 

Quote of the Day – August 30 2012

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett

 

Journeys can take many forms. The most obvious of these would be the physical. We leave. We experience and we return in a spiral like fashion as we never truly return to where we started. It has moved on.  We admire how the people we left have grown and perhaps they see something new in us.

What happens tho when physical journeying becomes more difficult. Work and life responsibilities get in the way or financially we can’t pull it together and so at least physically our ability to leave becomes at least temporarily curtailed. Well we can take a retreat, a day away from our lives so to speak where we can recharge and renew. We can take a peace pause, a break from everything in which we can meditate or find another way of journeying within. There too, we leave, we experience and we return further along the spiral. Our outlook has changed so the way we see the people we ‘left’ changes also. Does the way they see us also change? Does observation change that which is observed?
Blessings, G

 

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Circling Around by G A Rosenberg

Expansion by G A Rosenberg