There are spiritual laws
that no one can avoid or
completely understand.
How darkness makes its
holes for light to fill.
How two steps forward,
one step back is the way
of healing.
How giving freely softens
us enough to receive.
How surrender flows into
the basin of acceptance.
How showing up rethreads
us into the web of kinship.
How life, along the way,
twigs the heart into a nest.
~Mark Nepo
it’s here, right here…
inquiry for today~ how I feel and how you feel….
It is here, right here in the contested middle that we often learn that our maps, however elaborate, are not the whole picture or the terrain they pretend to represent. And that home is not simply the fixed dot at the end of dashed lines, motionless and given, awaiting the ones who come marching in… Everything begins in the middle. There are no beginnings that appear unperturbed, pristine and without hauntings. And there are no endings that are devoid of traces of the new, spontaneous departures from disclosure, and simmering events that are yet to happen. The middle isn’t the space between things; it is the world in its ongoing practices of worlding itself.
~Bayo Akomolafe
“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.” ― Alfred Korzybski