Tag enchantment
”We have been running on empty so long that we’ve lost the urge to refuel. We have spent so long anxiously scanning the news that we are now in a fixed state of objectless checking. This is our reading matter now. We are not looking for anything, we are just looking. It seems that if … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”Fire is the shadow side of enchantment, the dark gleaming sorcery from which we can’t tear our gaze. It shows us the wild danger that still resides in nature, the power it retains to devour and destroy. It is impolite, contagious, capable of catching from house to house while we stand helpless. It licks our … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”Mircea Eliade coined the term hierophany to describe the way that the divine reveals itself to us, transforming the objects through which it works. When we make a tree or a stone or a wafer of bread the subject of our worshipful attention, we transform it into a hierophany, an object of the sacred. For … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”I often think that ritual gives us something to do with our hands rather than our heads, performing a set of actions that root us into our being again. Ritual is different from worship: a matter of instinct rather than construction, a gesture that lets us weave significance in the moment. It is so undemanding, … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”….I need to change, too. I need to soften, to let go of my tight empirical boundaries, to find a greater fluidity in my being. I’m seeking what the poet John Keats called negative capability, that intuitive mode of thought that allows us to reside in ‘uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after face … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like a hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.” —-Anthony Hopkins... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“At around age six, perhaps, I was standing by myself in our front yard waiting for supper, just at that hour in a late summer day when the sun is already below the horizon and the risen full moon in the visible sky stops being chalky and begins to take on light. There comes the … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and all depths; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought; that your intellect owes … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
I am doing what Augusten Burroughs spoke of in his facebook video:https://www.facebook.com/9837529851/videos/2542364189313945 Writing for five minutes. Using hands idea has come to me for the last few days over and over. So, I decided to follow the direction. This morning, I pulled cards from the Mystical Shaman oracle. I thought I’d get all ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” —-E.E. Cummings... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
“How can the divine Oneness be seen? In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders, awe-inspiring miracles? The Tao is not obliged to present itself in this way. If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.” –Hua Hu Ching, taken from The Essence of TAO by … ... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com
”Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.” —-Abraham Joshua Heschel... mehr auf elisasspot.wordpress.com