“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers Reflecting on the paradox of acceptance in addiction, or any other behaviour which one finds abhorrent in oneself (or in others, for that matter): There is, in ‘Christianese’, a saying; “love the sinner, but not the […]
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no reassurance on the path deliverance Drastic transition; raw, vulnerabewildering exdentity, extasy, catastrophe, epiphany shedding skin. Deliver me from the nostalgia for safety, comfort and ease. Fabrication, confabulation: we make the path as we go, minding matter into meaning… moulting myself, moshmeaningfully.
apostatic attitudes towards a paradigm: perambulation, peregrination, verge
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‘Soul’ as the basic dynamo, fueled by basic goodness, intrinsic and inherent in any living being, towards authenticity, awakening, liberation. Not a ‘thing’, and hence not conditional, but more a quality of energy, an active nature, which ‘expresses /is expressed’ in different beings in different ways. An orienting energy which seduces, provokes, agitates, empowers, encourages,
In suspense.Tethered tautas a present possibilitybetween past and future,between puppet and angel.Gathered into the torn tensionof momentum and calling.Mortal in eternity,our cracked fragility,endures the stress, straining. What longing-calling,voice of eternity,could dare us,and bring us to dare, the crossing? Eternity’s pure whole notes –somehow heard –disclose our infirmity.Restless, unfinished, incomplete,despair tears usfrom our security. With such
“You never walk into the same river twice.” Heraclitus It’s not just the river that’s changed. The same person never walks into the same river twice.