Adding another voicing of a way time keeps playing its role in our consciousness (from Pursewarden, a character in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandrian Quartet, rediscovered as I travel through the Quartet again in these times. 'Again' after first-read-first-time only a few years after Durrell had written them from deep within a late 1950's time world).....
"In the Space and Time marriage we have the greatest Boy meets Girl story of the age. To our great-grandchildren this will be as poetical a union as the ancient Greek marriage of Cupid and Psyche seems to us. You see, Cupid and Psyche were facts to the Greeks, not concepts. Analogical as against analytical thinking! "
....Hmmmm... and aren't those very "great-grandchildren" us?
"being in relation again, not ‘stuck’ in the rush of forward motion"........
I immediately travel this down into my day, into my "things to do", into each step, each keystroke, each 'new idea'.... Relate please, I offer, with each ingredient in this day. I want to try.
.......Travelling into the Time Hidden Within Each and Every.......
I want to try offering it "Absolutely unmixed attention"......which Simone Weil tells me is "prayer."
I want to remember to ask of each: "Am I experiencing this time as an enemy or a prayer?"
This all applies, even when we subtract your denigration of "progress" from the rest. Is not re-presenting a cultural progression, an opening of now to those future influences which can afford us a higher teleology?
“This rings true in the marrow. Presence is the mutation—beyond progress, beyond clockwork, into coherence.”
And Mixing up the ingredients from your/our fifth Integral Futuring course today in yet a different array ( from poet John Roedel also today)
I have never met a river
that regretted becoming one.
Streams never look back
at the mountain ---
they only look toward the horizon
when the ocean calls out to them:
"My love,
You aren't changing.
You are unfolding.
You are flowing..
You are carving your name in the Earth
as you seek your Sea.
And when you arrive, you'll recognize
the waves -- not as an end --
but as family.
Adding another voicing of a way time keeps playing its role in our consciousness (from Pursewarden, a character in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandrian Quartet, rediscovered as I travel through the Quartet again in these times. 'Again' after first-read-first-time only a few years after Durrell had written them from deep within a late 1950's time world).....
"In the Space and Time marriage we have the greatest Boy meets Girl story of the age. To our great-grandchildren this will be as poetical a union as the ancient Greek marriage of Cupid and Psyche seems to us. You see, Cupid and Psyche were facts to the Greeks, not concepts. Analogical as against analytical thinking! "
....Hmmmm... and aren't those very "great-grandchildren" us?
"being in relation again, not ‘stuck’ in the rush of forward motion"........
I immediately travel this down into my day, into my "things to do", into each step, each keystroke, each 'new idea'.... Relate please, I offer, with each ingredient in this day. I want to try.
.......Travelling into the Time Hidden Within Each and Every.......
I want to try offering it "Absolutely unmixed attention"......which Simone Weil tells me is "prayer."
I want to remember to ask of each: "Am I experiencing this time as an enemy or a prayer?"
This all applies, even when we subtract your denigration of "progress" from the rest. Is not re-presenting a cultural progression, an opening of now to those future influences which can afford us a higher teleology?