our language is too small for the territory we already entered. Ludwig Wittgenstein said “the limits of my language define the limits of my world.” The thing we are searching for is Meaning, without Understanding we cannot arrive at Meaning, and the key to better Understanding, is better language. We […]
Monthly Archives: January 2023
25 posts
At least half of waking up is learning and practicing the art of grieving and letting go. Awakening is a threshing. This is a truth that can not be any other way. We are the wheat and just so, the chaff of what must be removed by rough handling is […]
the hardship of the journey is exactly matched to the value of the prize and the greatness of the soul who dares the way. We look away from our wounds. We hope healing will come from outside of ourselves. Our psychological wounds are the places we first became separated from […]
The wolf in you will see you through long nights,the squirrel through long winters. Our life happens in seasons. It is a story we are writing, every day as it happens, and we get to make it a good story, we get to make it a great story. And great […]
Rest is not in the way. Regression is not Failure. Rest is necessary part of movement. Regression is a necessary part of progress.
Enough is not an amount, it is a Decision. We cannot choose what we face exactly, but we can choose how we face it. To face something means, in an archetypal sense, to stand our ground in a way, to Choose, not so much whether we are to win or […]
I know it’s hard to trust the way. But that is precisely what the way is asking of you. It is because your heart broke, that you believe something went wrong. Our promises have to be taken from us to release us from the smallness they bind us to. Our […]
Rocco's earlier interview on the The Walled Garden Podcast with Simon Drew discussing his unique Philosophy on life, and the project of Actualisation and psychological self-repair. A really beautiful discussion between two poets and philosophers.
Hearts break.Hearts mend.Let yours. Hearts break when we try for too long to love around our deepest wounds. Sometimes trying bravely to love around the wounds, is love. And it took great courage and grace to be this way, because the wounds were not trivial. No one told us, we […]
The self-discovery we can come to by facing shadow, the choice to courage, the way in which we lead the child within by the door of voluntary vulnerability to come to the place of great healing, can only be exactly this way, because all our first wounds arrived in the […]
This will be the lesson schedule for 20-Jan – 19-Feb 2023 PLEASE NOTE: This Month’s Theme The theme for this month is Stance & Intention. Climbing the mountain is the metaphor for mastery. Crossing the bridge is the metaphor for stance. We will spend the rest of our lives climbing […]
how little, yesterday matters today. There was a day that happened that you called your worst. There were days where you were brought so low, you could not imagine a time when your life would be graced again by sunshine and there was that one time, a moment so dark […]
A poem about Perspective by Rocco Jarman THE KEEPER OF MEANING your life is a tapestry, so many threads, woven a tremendous going on, a relentless unfolding, of thatching and unravelling, a picking loose and a tying off, a coming together of chapters; of beginnings that are noticed only now, […]
Once a child has been guided to genuine self-love, you never need to worry about their friends or their choices. Even before our daughter was born, the image of a little fox came into our minds. At 16 months; she had already taught us so much, not the least was […]
Some steps need to be taken alone. It is the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. Mandy Hale aloneness is a gift. On the Necessity of Aloneness we spend all our energy and so much of our attention and […]
There are two paths to healing and wholeness:The one is surrender, the other is Understanding. We are given the choice to forego the burden of understanding the world and simply choosing to embrace Love, to stand in Love and and to accept that all the world seeks to embrace us. […]
our Smallness can devour our Greatness,if we allow it.Our pain, can eclipse our joysIf we allow it.When Fear is the default, Love is the only true Choice. Greatness is a choice and we are, all of us, who we repeatedly choose to be. The circular irony is that it is […]
I’m hosting a meetup in February. I’ll be running a Zoom call where anyone can register to participate live and either just listen in or fire some Questions my way which will be published as a Episode in the coming weeks. Times PDT (UTC-7) Sunday, 12 February at 3 pm […]
The choice to courage, the way in which we lead the child within by the door of voluntary vulnerability, to come to the place of great healing, can only be exactly this way because all our first wounds arrived, in the only place they could arrive, which was the utmost […]
If you are making a choice from love, you are choosing growth. If you are making a choice from fear, you are choosing to remain small. Love is growth, and choosing challenges, and their attendant discomforts. Fear is stagnation and diminishing, choosing safety, and avoiding discomfort. You are neither the […]
We feel with our hearts, Not in our hearts. Feel. Feel everything. At times, even abandoned. The heart is a feeling instrument. When your heart is broken, it is your love that has forever changed. It is your faith that has left you, it is the ending of a belonging […]
The meditation is good. The Jiu-Jitsu is good. The Yoga is good. The breath-work is good. The journaling is good. But Life, happens off the mat. The world has changed. Life must change with it. We cannot have practices and expect them to bring about the profound changes we truly […]
The first steps of Growth, for the seed and for the human heart alike, are falling, separation and breaking open. Even the falling of the seed, seems at first random, but of course, it had its causes, far beyond what the little seed can gauge or comprehend, and once the […]
The waves keep coming. Always. All we can say, is "Not Today!" Life throws wave after wave of ordeal at us. The difference between an ordeal and a trial is not the circumstance, it his how we choose to face it. They say only a fool turns their back on […]
