
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real growth is experienced when you draw back from that one window, turn, and walk around the inner tower of the soul and see all the different windows that await your gaze. Through these different windows, you can see new vistas of possibility, presence, and creativity. Complacency, habit, and blindness often prevent you from feeling your life. So much depends on the frame of vision — the window through which you look.
~John O’Donohue
fire and water and dissonance and fear….
inquiry for today~ sometimes you may linger in the forgetting….
The arborist has determined:
senescence beetles canker
quickened by drought
but in any case
not prunable not treatable not to be propped.And so.
The branch from which the sharp-shinned hawks and their mate-cries.
The trunk where the ant.
The red squirrels’ eighty-foot playground.
The bark cambium pine-sap cluster of needles.
The Japanese patterns the ink-net.
The dapple on certain fish.
Today, for some, a universe will vanish.
First noisily,
then just another silence.The silence of after, once the theater has emptied.
Of bewilderment after the glacier,
the species, the star.Something else, in the scale of quickening things,
will replace it,this hole of light in the light, the puzzled birds swerving around it.
~Jane Hirshfield
The silence of after the theater has emptied. I always liked the hush in the morning of a new fallen snow. Today was one of those days …
So far from complacency, yes? Best to feel- somehow. These days the hush seems to be so heavy. Thanks g.f.s….