To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life – to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don’t go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open
Faith is hope in the unseen. Often we cannot see the results of the efforts we are putting in …
Even if the Hour of Resurrection comes up,
and one of you is holding a sapling in your hand….
finish planting it.
The Prophet Mohammed
We want the spring to come and the winter to pass.
We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss – we want more and more and then more of it.
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I’m gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I’m speechless:
I am living…
Marie Howe, American poet, What the Living Do
With thanks to allchannels.blogspot.com
In time we are present only
by forgetting time.
Wendell Berry, 2007.IV
The journey is into the wildness of your greater life. The wilderness is your soul. To merge with your destiny, you must locate, liberate and live what is truly wild. The soul is here to live its joy. The unitiated ego is here to keep things familiar, safe and predictable. Which path will you choose?.
Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
We are wired for attachment
in a world of impermanence.
How we negotiate that tension
shapes who we become.
Robert Neimeyer.
