The Middle has no End

 

“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle

 

I have written a few times now about constant beginnings and how each moment can be and often is the beginning of something new. While that is definitely true, it is only part of the story. It is equally true that at any given time we are somewhere in the middle of our tale, whether that be the middle of our day, the middle of our lives or the middle of the great tale of existence itself. The middle after all is where everything happens, the start and end point too brief to recognize. Our lifelong quest to become ourselves lasts as long as we do. Our understanding continually expands and even when we believe we’ve reached the end, we find that it is at best a brief pause or a shift to a new phase.
Blessings, G

 

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Watching the Talking HeadsWatching the Talking Heads by G A Rosenberg

 

Wheel of FIreWheel of Fire by G A Rosenberg

 

Quote of the Day – January 1 2013

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happy 2013. May all the things that no longer serve, have ended with 2012, all the things that we wish to persist continue and all things we wish to have, enter into our lives in this new year. May we love and know abundance along with challenges that awareness of this world and our own shadow nature bring. May we look forward to what is to come with little disappointment in what has come before but rather an acknowledgement that that was what we needed then and what we need now to be a little more complex.
Blessings, G

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Cosmic Birth

Crowned and Conquering Child by G A Rosenberg

Motion in Space

Motion in Space by G A Rosenberg

Quotes of the Day – December 21 2012

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always”
― Dante Alighieri

 

“…and in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live – and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

 

I think Hunter S Thompson would have been amused at being teamed up with Dante or he would have threatened me with a gun depending on his drug of choice of the moment. While I haven’t jumped fully into any kind of “the future will be like this” bandwagon, I do believe that this day will start a new cycle. Too many people both believe and want to believe this for it not to happen. But then those of you who have been here with me for any length of time know that I believe that any moment can start a new beginning. What is a new year but an ‘official’ time of new beginning. In Mayan terms we are having a rather extreme form of New Year. Make a resolution. What do you hope to start? What would you like to stop? In what way would you like to transform going into this new age? Make a wish, a dream, a resolution, water it and make it come true…
Blessings, G

 

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Page of Wands

 

Tarot – Page of Wands by G A Rosenberg

Abstracted K9

 

Abstracted Canine by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 16 2012

I chose, and my world was shaken–so what?
The choice may have been mistaken
but choosing was not.
You have to move on.
Look at what you want,
Not at where you are,
Not at what you’ll be.
Look at all the things you’ve done for me:
Opened up my eyes
Taught me how to see
Notice every tree!
Understand the light!
Concentrate on now!
I want to move on . . .
I want to explore the light.
I want to know how to get through
through to something new–
Something of my own!
Move on!
Move on!
Stop worrying if your vision is new.
Let others make that decision . . .
they usually do
— Stephen Sondheim, Move On

 

Often I have seen people who felt stuck, unable to go forward in their lives or in their practice. I’ve been there once or twice myself. We lose sight of the fact that even if it feels we’re doing the same thing over and over or reiterating the same ideas that it is merely a trick of light or time. Each moment is new. Each moment has different things happening in it. We have but to see. So, how do we break the feeling? Perhaps there’s something in the song lyric. We move on.
That’s right. We explore what feels stale. We explore the light and we explore the shadow and we find newness in it. Easier said than done? Perhaps. In the end tho, we’re beholden to no one. We don’t need to judge ourselves or anyone else. We’re where we are, we do the meditation or practice that we chose to do. We have chosen to be here and its for a reason. If it’s the wrong choice, we can always move on again to the next thing, the next practice, taking what we’ve learned. If every moment changes us, then no matter what we do, it has never before been done by us, not the us who we are at practice. I want to appreciate the movement and appreciate the moment as the present it is.
Blessings, G

 

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Burning Bright by G A Rosenberg

 

It’s Scrying Time Again by G A Rosenberg