Nancy Neithercut - Awakening, Reflections

 

Awakening is the deepest intimacy
as your own love has ravished you,
skinned you alive,
and ripped out your heart,
your love and your life,
until there is no one to have a life.  
Or love…

All that's left is the dance of one of two of none...
streaming moving and standing utterly still
without a ground or goal or place to be,
singing vibrantly
silently
a mad passionate dance
of you of me of we.
 
It is like love,
this beautiful homelessness.
This feeling of soaring
skinless as the wind.
This vibrant rushing
roaring
sublime perfection
breathing my heart song.

Life and love continue
to sail across a vast ocean of tears
as the sunset reflects its beautiful
beautiful oranges and reds
on my sky lined face...

Never born
never dying
Always born
always dying 

 

 Nancy Neithercut, from her book,

 "To Kiss What Cannot Be Kissed...: Love songs from the canyon"

 

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Henry Miller - A traveler on the road to nowhere

 

I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed. The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I want to see. It is like peeling an onion. There is always another layer, and another, and another. And each layer is more beautiful than the last.
This is the way I look at the world. I don't see it as a collection of objects, but as a vast and mysterious organism. I see the beauty in the smallest things, and I find wonder in the most ordinary events. I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.
I know that I will never understand everything, but that doesn't stop me from trying. I am content to live in the mystery, to be surrounded by the unknown. I am content to be a seeker, a pilgrim, a traveler on the road to nowhere. 

 

 

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