alone....big world...

being alone….the powerful antidote to ‘self’ or ‘ego’….a parodoxical & lifelong challenge…

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up she is almost fifty years old…..Maxine Kumin

awakening the witness….

powerless over your patterns…yes…

powerless over how you deal with them….no…

By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, & by accepting reality…taking things as they are, & not as I wanted them to be…by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, & unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things, they overpowered us in some way. This turns out not to be true at all, & it is only by accepting them that one can assume an attitude towards them. So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good & bad, sun & shadow, forever alternating, & in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive & negative & sometimes extreme sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me. What a fool I was! I tried to force everything to go according to the way I thought it ought to……..a patient of Carl Jung

ok, so this is seemingly quite trite & too ‘feel good’ but it does suggest a certain amount of freedom just by simply ‘stepping back’ a bit from our day to day concerns…

we do this again & again & again though don’t we?…

just remembering to love is hard enough…

There are only two or three human stories & they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…..Willa Cather