You Can't Start The Spiritual Journey Until You Have A Broken Heart

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Take the edge of the past,

not the whole

just the edge,

the way the art teacher

said You Blink Too Much,

the way the English teacher said

Your Father Must Have Written This-

It's Too Good . . .

This must be why

God started talking to me

in my own voice with

thoughts of

consequence and

ideas I never knew,

in my own voice,

even though I thought

a better one surely

should be found,

and certainly could be found-

It sounded at first

like a fiery sun

and a silk moon

spinning through me,

in tongues

and languages

I finally understood

but fast- so fast-

by the time I got the pen

it was gone.

~ Grace Cavalieri 

You Can't Start The Spiritual Journey Until You Have A Broken Heart

Source: Favim

Take the edge of the past,

not the whole

just the edge,

the way the art teacher

said You Blink Too Much,

the way the English teacher said

Your Father Must Have Written This-

It's Too Good . . .

This must be why

God started talking to me

in my own voice with

thoughts of

consequence and

ideas I never knew,

in my own voice,

even though I thought

a better one surely

should be found,

and certainly could be found-

It sounded at first

like a fiery sun

and a silk moon

spinning through me,

in tongues

and languages

I finally understood

but fast- so fast-

by the time I got the pen

it was gone.

~ Grace Cavalieri 

Scars

Source: Novel Ideas

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.

~ Steve Goodier

Scars

Source: Novel Ideas

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.

~ Steve Goodier

Framing

Credit: Time Passages Nostalgia Company

Something is left out, something left behind. As, for instance,

in this photo of myself at four, the eyes
focus elsewhere, the hand interrupted mid-air by some enormous,
sudden,
fascination.

Something never before seen has happened left of frame,
and everything already known
is more opaque for it.
Beyond the frame is why

the hydrangea midsummer will go no further, though it continues,
why this century, late and turning,
turns away; beyond
is where the story goes after all the knots are tied, and where

the insects meet in order to become
the grand machine they are the perfect parts of; beyond
is what the wind
leans towards, easy as can be, the sheep

we have already counted,
the world too large to fit.
Within, it would have been a mere event,
not destructive as it is now, destructive as the past remains,

becomes, by knowing more than we do.

~ Jorie Graham

Framing

Credit: Time Passages Nostalgia Company

Something is left out, something left behind. As, for instance,

in this photo of myself at four, the eyes
focus elsewhere, the hand interrupted mid-air by some enormous,
sudden,
fascination.

Something never before seen has happened left of frame,
and everything already known
is more opaque for it.
Beyond the frame is why

the hydrangea midsummer will go no further, though it continues,
why this century, late and turning,
turns away; beyond
is where the story goes after all the knots are tied, and where

the insects meet in order to become
the grand machine they are the perfect parts of; beyond
is what the wind
leans towards, easy as can be, the sheep

we have already counted,
the world too large to fit.
Within, it would have been a mere event,
not destructive as it is now, destructive as the past remains,

becomes, by knowing more than we do.

~ Jorie Graham

Quote on forgetting

Credit: Cindy Loughridge

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
~ Honoré de Balzac

Quote on forgetting

Credit: Cindy Loughridge

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
~ Honoré de Balzac