The Universe is Smiling: Bite Size Morsels

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Bite size morsels - give everything enough space, little by little, and the whole will become clear. 
Posted by Unknown at Thursday, June 03, 2010
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2 comments:

  1. Paul LichtenbergJune 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM

    I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
    to make every hour holy.
    I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
    just to stand before you like a thing,
    dark and shrewd.
    I want my will, and I want to be with
    my will as it moves
    towards deed;
    and in those quiet, somehow
    hesitating times,
    when something is approaching,
    I want to be with those who are wise
    or else alone.
    I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,
    and never to be too blind or too old
    to hold your heavy, swaying image.
    I want to unfold.
    Nowhere do I want to remain folded,
    because where I am bent and folded, there I am lie.
    And I want my meaning
    true for you. I want to describe myself
    like a painting that I studied
    closely for a long, long time,
    like a word I finally understood,
    like the pitcher of water I use
    every day,
    like the face of my mother,
    like a ship
    that carried me
    through the deadliest storm of all.

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  2. Paul LichtenbergJune 10, 2010 at 12:05 AM

    This is a Rilke poem. His name apparently got lost when I posted it. Rilke wrote this poem when staying in a monastery with monks in Russia. The lines

    "I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,
    and never to be too blind or too old
    to hold your heavy, swaying image."

    refer to the strong, "swaying" (e)motions engendered in relationship (especially relationship to one's self). I thought of this poem in relation to your wonderful new website and IVD. There is a deep desire and even courage to tap into one's uniquity and creative force and IVD is the perfect tool for directly experiencing this mostly unconscious, beautifully "heavy swaying image" of self.

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