It is precisely in our defeats not our triumphs, that we discover the deepest nature of our hearts and the true face of our most private hopes. It is what the trials of the climb threaten to take from you that frame with pristine clarity the connection we have to any meaning we might come to in life.
Perspective
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the first steps of growth for a seed or a human heart, are separation, falling, 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 seed falls […]
the divine that i seek, is not in the temple, if it is not also outside the temple... Our journeys through childhood, our lack of initiation into adulthood, our being lead and taught by people who themselves had never been properly inducted into life, programmed by a culture that had […]
There is nothing in life that is not improved by increased perspective and stillness. To be curious and present in the face of tragedy, pain, regret or fear, requires great vulnerability and great courage, but you cannot grow and heal without those key aspects and the chosen stance to embody them: Curiosity, Presence, Vulnerability and Courage.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]