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POEMS of FULFILLMENT
"We dance around in a ring and suppose, / But the Secret sits in the middle and knows," Robert Frost wrote, looking in from the outside.
Looking out from the inside, Chuang-tzu wrote, "When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference."
This anonymous center _ which is called God in Jewish, Christian, and Moslem cultures, and Tao, Self, or Buddha in the great Eastern traditions _ is the realest of realities.
Sitting or dancing, all poems of fulfillment included in this little book, have found themselves inside the circle _ some of them a step within the circumference, some far in, some at the dead center.
Looking out from the center , you can talk about the circumference.
But really, there is no
circumference .
Everyone,
everything ,
is joyfully included .
(Foreword in Stephen Mitchell´s: The Enlightened Heart . An Anthology of Sacred Poetry . Harper Perennial)
He who
binds to himself
a joy
Does the winged life
destroy .
But he who
kisses the joy
as it flies
Lives in eternity´s
sun rise .
_ Blake
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... Im Grunde sind es doch die verBindungen mit Menschen, die dem Leben seinen Wert geben. - Wilhelm von Humboldt
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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." — Douglas Adams
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VULNERABILITY IS NOT
A weakness,
a passing indisposition,
Or something we can arrange
to do without
Vulnerability is not
a choice .
VULNERABILITY IS
The underlying,
ever present
And abiding undercurrent
of our natural state.
To run from vulnerability
is to run from the essence
of our nature,
The attempt to be invulnerable
is the vain attempt to become something
we are not and most especially,
To close off our understanding
of the grief of others.
More seriously,
in refusing our vulnerability
we refuse the help needed
at every turn of our existence
And immobilize the essential, tidal
and conversational
foundations of our identity.
To have a temporary,
isolated sense of power
over all events and circumstances,
Is a lovely illusionary
privilege
And perhaps
the prime and most beautifully constructed
conceit
Of being human
and especially
of being youthfully human,
But
it is a privilege
that must be surrendered
With that same youth,
with ill health,
with accident,
With the loss
of loved ones
who do not share
our untouchable powers
Powers
eventually
and most emphatically
Given up,
as we approach
our last breath.
The only choice we have
as we mature is
How we inhabit our vulnerability,
how we become larger
And more courageous
and more compassionate
through our intimacy with disappearance,
Our choice is to inhabit vulnerability
as generous citizens
of loss,
Robustly and fully,
or, conversely,
As misers and complainers,
reluctant and fearful,
Always at the gates of existence,
but never bravely and completely
attempting to enter
Never wanting to risk
ourselves,
Never walking
fully
Through the open
door.
[ David Whyte ]
Owning our story
can be hard, but
Not nearly as difficult
as spending our lives
running from it.
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky
but not nearly as dangerous
As giving up on love
and belonging and joy—
The experiences that make us
the most vulnerable."
-- Brené Brown
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unfoldings
“So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.” — Douglas Adams
To the amazing , breath-taking wonderful hero
my sister truly is , every single day .
keep strong & your spirits up
[ Wholeheartedness being the antidote to exhaustion ]
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Sculpturing Light
How many patterns of imaginative horizons are formed by creative light ? Lightsheet / Single Plane Illumination Microscopy
The marvelous thing
about a simple good question is
That it both will shape our identity
and as such
The unique
authentic signature of our life
As much
by asking
As it does
by the answering.
- After David Whyte.
THE ROAD UNTAKEN _ BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads
diverged
In a yellow
wood,
And sorry
I could not travel
both
And be one
traveler,
Long I stood
And looked down
one
As far
as I could
To where it bent
in the undergrowth .
Then
took the OTHER,
As just
as fair,
And having perhaps
the better claim,
Because it was
grassy and wanted wear
Though
as for that the passing there
Had worn them really
about the same,
And both
that morning equally lay
In
Leaves
No step
had trodden black .
Oh,
I kept
the first
For another
day!
Yet
knowing
How way
leads on
to way,
I doubted
if
I should ever
come back .
I shall be
telling this
With a sigh
_
Some
Where
Ages and ages
hence:
Two roads diverged
in a wood
[ Nel mezzo del cammin
di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai
per una selva
oscura,
Che la
DIRITTA VIA
era smarrita . . . ] ,
And I —
I took
The
One
Less traveled
by,
AND THAT
Has made
ALL
the difference .
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"The act of writing anything
worthwhile
Always
Takes place at that strange
and sometimes disturbing
Crossroads
where aloneness and intimacy meet.
The solitariness of the writer [or any creative individual
in the contextual reality of life]
Sometimes at a desk,
Sometimes
while writing in a notebook
on a skittering knee while travelling,
Always,
If followed
rightly,
Culminates in a
Radical form of undoing
That leads to the distinctions
between aloneness and togetherness
Breaking down
altogether.
This break of the boundary
between what we think is a self
And what we think
is other than our self
Is where
the rich vein of beauty and insight
Become a reward
in and of itself,
And where the words suddenly seem
to belong to everyone . . .
Speaking of real friendship,
One of the many ways
we have made ourselves lonely
Without
gaining the deeper nourishment
and intimacies of true aloneness, is
The way
we have lost
The greater
supporting circle of friendship
Available to us
in the created, natural world:
To be friends
With the sky,
the rain,
The changing light
of a given day
And _
the horizon
Always
leading us
Beyond the circle
we have drawn
Too readily
for ourselves.
This book is, in many ways,
a celebration
Of the wider circle
of friendship
That is
our birthright .
It is ,
in wishing to deepen and make more intimate
And to live into and up
to the consequences of that rich relationship
With our world
and our astonishing planet,
And in posing all the beautiful questions
that this world asks of us,
That much of this work
has been written."
DAVID WHYTE , August 2019
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