“The window is a form of consciousness, pattern of formed sense through which to look into the wild that is a pattern too, but dark and flowing…” Wendell Berry
Memory is one of the most beautiful realities of the soul. Human memory is an inner temple of feeling & sensibility. The soul lives in eternal time. Time opens up & opens out the mystery of the soul. The mysteries that time unfold fill me with wonder….
…this found expression lives in poems…
Cottage
I sit alert
behind the small window
of my mind & watch
the days pass, strangers
who have no reason to look in.
…John O’Donahue
the tension between the visible & the invisible is personified in our windows….ghosts, spirits, fairies & angels are really our own souls drifting….our divine imagination…
there is a healing presence in looking out, looking within….a pause to witness life in motion, outside of us….yet, this reflection is a keen memory, not the moment….it’s always in the past….somehow windows in the soul slow this down….
The World Below the Window
The geraniums I left last night on the windowsill,
To the best of my knowledge now, are out there still,
And will be there as long as I think they will.
And will be there as long as I think that I
Can throw the window open on the sky,
A touch of geranium pink in the tail of my eye;
As long as I think I see, past leaves green-growing,
Barges moving down a river, water flowing,
Fulfillment in the thought of thought outgoing,
Fulfillment in the sight of sight replying,
Of sound in the sound of small birds southward flying,
In life like-giving, and in death undying.
…..William Jay Smith
What a perfect analogy for consciousness, we sit at our window looking out, and only see what the light the glass let’s through… A thousand other passers by wonder at us and we don’t know, don’t care, don’t see through the Looking Glass…
Funny you should bring this up…just went to a talk by a master yogi describing the process of transformation as bringing the unconscious to the conscious….indeed…through the looking glass…through the window pane…through the veil of ego…through our true nature…home….thanks g.f.s….
I look forward to visiting your blog each day to see what you’ve posted. It is always fresh and inspiring 🙂
So pleased it resonates….this life is intertwined in so many ways…Blue Skies to you today…thanks….
Cracking post, thank you x
Thanks Jane…..wishing you a cool breeze through a sunny window…
Inspiring…
Wishing you a sunny window, geraniums shining….thanks….