The night sea journey takes you back to your primordial self, not the heroic self that burns out and falls to judgement, but to your original self, yourself as a sea of possibility, your greater and deeper being. Night sea journey is a cosmic passage taken as a metaphor for our own dark nights, when we are trapped in a mood or by external circumstances and can do little but sit and wait for liberation. The darkness is natural, one of the life processes.--Thomas Moore
Saturday, August 15, 2009
LONESOME DAY!
No, I am not talking about just one day but this whole period of my life. One by one, people let me down and maybe 2 people in this world have spoken to me with some kind of understanding of not only what to say but how to be present! August, in particular has been the most challenging month for me as I face the most difficult career/life challenge on the heels of way too many challenges! But work doesn't care about that stuff and if I open my mouth I'll only hear cheer leading and empty explanation! I enter this gauntlet without a feeling that I have emotional or physical strength to succeed but I will try the best I can! So in the interest of health I have been walking and while listening to my MP3 player this great song fromt the great CD, The Rising stuck....
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great song.. hard time. When I get back into the groove next week, let's connect, ok?
ReplyDeleteSteve...you are not alone. I am praying for you and Bailey daily.
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