“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— C.G. Jung
I drop a penny into my well
and wait for the landing echo.
There is much to see and hear inside
The sound of changing dreams
and compromise
The sad song of loneliness
playing at odds with the din of companionship
The anguish of uncertainty and doubt
with a counterpoint of hope
yet still the penny drops.
I find gods and demons exchanging masques
shifting belief structures in runed circles
hymns and dirges, invocational chants
and still the penny drops
It may never land
yet with each layer I come closer to the centre
of my soul’s heart awakening.
— G A Rosenberg
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“I deny my anger. It is a negative emotion and I can’t have those. Oh these? The doctor told me to take these for my stomach. The pain gets bad sometimes. Anyway, as I was saying I am way too advanced to let myself give into hate or anger or jealousy. It lowers my vibration when I give into negativity like that. You should know. Look at what happens when you get pissed off. Good thing I’ve gotten over all that. It really eases my mind. Excuse me, I need to go lie down. I get these cluster headaches sometimes and rest in a dark room is about the only thing that helps.”
Power is often very quiet.
— Williams S. Burroughs
A Whisper in a quiet room can be deafening. When someone who normally speaks with booming tones can gain instant attention with a choked whisper. Power does not have to be loud or flashy. It is known by its nature, felt intrinsically by others with an energetic exchange. It is a matter of aural not oral intensity. Lay quietly in the dark. Let your mind float and listen. Amidst the echoes of the past day and the grumblings of your stomach, hear the whispers that come to you from your hidden depths. They are all too easy to ignore during waking hours but they will reveal layers of your being that were hidden. Not all will be reassuring and those are the ones that hold the most power. Hear what they are saying and understand the parts that you keep locked away. Those whispers are the keys. They don’t need to be acted on just acknowledged.
Blessings, G
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And Sometimes I float in Strange Spaces by G A Rosenberg
“Nothing is lost, nothing is created, all is transformed.”
— Antoine Lavoisier
You’ve drifted into memory
our love once present
now defined by absence
yet neither it nor
all I’ve learned from
the us that was is lost
I can revisit it
and make it better
with fewer mistakes
that we made
that I made.
Nothing is lost
My anger is transformed to regret
My tears to acceptance
and my love
well that still burns
a memory and definition of home
a collection of mental photographs
of joy I will feel again
— G A Rosenberg
“Try to listen as if you were listening to something new—not comparing other things you know or think you know.”
— G. I. Gurdjieff
We tend to think by comparison perhaps me even more than most. When we come across a new concept, we try to understand it by comparing it to something we already know and make a leap towards understanding it based on how it is similar and how it is different. This can add in a small way to understanding a new concept but it doesn’t bring us to its essence. Essence cannot be understood by the intellect but by a deeper part of ourselves whether you want to call it the intuition or mystical sense.
We understand the essence of another when we can look into their eyes and see their heart. I don’t mean an intellectual knowing but a feeling that tunes us to another in a way that is beyond words. Imagine if we could do that with everything we came across. Treat it totally as if it were something new something we could learn not by understanding but by a learning. It would be a pearl beyond any price. Of course to do that we have to forget or put aside everything we knew so that we could experience it as if it were for the first time.
Blessings, G
“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
“It was a Friday afternoon. Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
— Neil Gaiman
Life erupting at breakneck speeds. Sometimes it seems that we go from event to event crisis to crisis putting out one fire only to find out that two more have taken their place. We definitely live in a world faster than the one I remember growing up. I don’t know that that’s a bad thing. We are all learning new time and stress management skills all the time yet sometimes I wish things would slow down and just stop. I used to say routinely that I would like to know what a routine day was like because each one feels widely different than the last.
Yet i realize that it is not necessarily life that has to slow down but me. I have to take the time to enjoy each moment. I need to meditate for awhile each day and not do anything. Yes, there are always things that are calling for my attention and time yet it is not always necessary to heed the call. I am not saying that there is a need for strict rules. I tend to rebel against those anyway. More that I need a way to give body, soul, family, friends and work enough attention each according to need. In other words I have to make conscious decisions. The unconscious ones tend not to work anyway.
Blessings, G
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