Many things fall into the category of the non-ordinary, those aspects of life that we can not see but we can sense. For me the soul falls into this category.
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I will be adding to this page over time. Allowing ideas to unfold a the leaves sprout and unfold on the trees in spring. Here are a few words about the soul.
Soul is a source of inner higher knowledge, guidance, teaching
Soul may appear to us as something subtle, timeless and yet at the same time something we can sense
Soul is often sought and found when one is in crisis – great loss, fear of death
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Silence….. it is not exactly a “non-ordinary” state. But it can be profound. Here is a bit on silence from conversations with my students.
“Thank you”, she said after we gazed. “There is a softness in your eyes that I hadn’t noticed before. Maybe it has been there and I just was not able to see it.”
“Yes.” I replied. “You see it because it is in you too.”
And then someone else said, “There is a deeper silence in you since you came back from the jungle.”
“Yes.” I replied. “I notice that too.”
It doesn’t feel outwardly big but it feels deep and somehow inwardly vast. You have to embrace your own stillness to sense it in me. I wouldn’t say that there is much Shakti in it but there is a lot of silent expansiveness. It is a quiet radiance that doesn’t draw much attention. Deep trust and compassion grow as my companions on this journey back to self. There is much to be explored here in this quiet, fluid space.
And it feels like enough….more than enough…..for me.
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a quote I like
“I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke. From: Letters to a young Poet