Live It
How does a bird fly? It believes it can. And its wings remember the beautiful taste of the sky.
And we too, are so about flight— so about the need to know freedom.
Trying builds a bridge to a place one can hope to be. Say a young person picking up a guitar for the first time, with a dream to someday be on the stage, rocking. Say, a young scientist gathering info and sitting down for hours working on a theory; she feels a revelation that will evolve us, and help us know how deeply kin we are to all things.
Gathering info! Gathering enough info to get out of the cage. Any cage where your internal plants have wilted from sadness, depression, or too much worry from not getting enough light, and the nutrients of having enough fun.
Gathering info: I like very much a Rumi poem in my book, The Purity of Desire, that speaks about something that is really vital to all of us. The poem is titled: “Empty It Out In Front Of Me,” and is on page 56 in the book.
The poems starts off with: There have been thousands of things for you to pick from to put in your backpack on this journey.
And with the political and world climate we have entered, so many of us are going to need to pull something out of our backpacks that can really be a help & work when we need aid— as I think so many of us now do.
Live it. Yeah— live it! What is in your backpack that can be a bridge, a real bridge to a place you want to be? I am mostly speaking about a bridge to an emotional, psychological, and spiritual place, but sure, that can also be some physical location in this world.
Do read that mentioned Rumi poem if you have that book, and several in there, as I have been saying at times over the last year or so: to me, Rumi & Hafiz can be Carl Jung times ten gone poet. And to really study and try to absorb some Rumi and Hafiz poems can be a great session with Carl. It will help you become a happier and freer munchkin. Hafiz and Rumi are all about getting you back in the sky, and out of every cage, and feeling better, and empowering your heart and talents!
Something in my backpack. I realized a long time ago, well back when I was 30, something vital to my journey. I wrote about that in one of my blog entries I am posting a link to here. It is titled, “The Unfoldment of the Rose”, and it was picked up by an interesting online European publication called The Culturium, that commented on it some, introduced it, and added in some nice art. This is a sophisticated & very personal blog entry of mine, and I would think needs something of a quiet, and maybe even elite mind, to really imbibe some of what this really so much offers, if you give it a real chance. I feel most of us have become so zapped, and our minds so shattered by emotional bombs, that a lot of golden rain rolls right off of us, when in some ways we are dying of thirst. We are dying to know more of our golden wings that can taste heaven, or just the wonders of each other and this earth.
Always thanks for your time,