Half My Heart To Make Yours Whole.
Feb. 13th, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
It brings to mind the time that the great poet Pablo Neruda, near the end of his life, stopped while traveling at the Lota coal mine in rural Chile. He stood there stunned, as a miner, rough and blackened by his work inside the earth, strode straight for Neruda, embraced him, and said, "I have known you a long time, my brother."
There are times when I have looked at other people and have been sure that they are known to me. Sometimes I think it can be explained by the Wiccan belief, shared by other faiths, and by me personally that we live many lives over, and are at times able to 'meet, remember, and know' some of those people whose life journeys have shared my own.
But there are other times when even that is not enough, a connection that transcends even that... the connection of two hearts that are truly beating as one. A heart that you recognise, because you can feel the beat of it within your own. I am truly blessed to have found such a heart.
From a tiny spark of awakening, on a chance meeting in a hallway, the love and connection between Mirrani and I has blossomed. I won't say it hasn't been without its moments, of course it has, we're both human after all, but through it all, the beat of our hearts, echoed within the other, have shown us the true course... and there must be strength in our hearts because even with so long spent apart, our love never wanes. Even in the times when our patience does, and wears so thin and threadbare that we teeter on the brink of despair, our hearts remain strong and true.
It is a rare gift, and one I cherish, but not nearly as much as I cherish the love and presence in my life of the woman I love.
If you place two living heart cells from different
people in a Petrie dish, they will in time find
and maintain a third and common beat.
-Molly Vass
It brings to mind the time that the great poet Pablo Neruda, near the end of his life, stopped while traveling at the Lota coal mine in rural Chile. He stood there stunned, as a miner, rough and blackened by his work inside the earth, strode straight for Neruda, embraced him, and said, "I have known you a long time, my brother."
There are times when I have looked at other people and have been sure that they are known to me. Sometimes I think it can be explained by the Wiccan belief, shared by other faiths, and by me personally that we live many lives over, and are at times able to 'meet, remember, and know' some of those people whose life journeys have shared my own.
But there are other times when even that is not enough, a connection that transcends even that... the connection of two hearts that are truly beating as one. A heart that you recognise, because you can feel the beat of it within your own. I am truly blessed to have found such a heart.
From a tiny spark of awakening, on a chance meeting in a hallway, the love and connection between Mirrani and I has blossomed. I won't say it hasn't been without its moments, of course it has, we're both human after all, but through it all, the beat of our hearts, echoed within the other, have shown us the true course... and there must be strength in our hearts because even with so long spent apart, our love never wanes. Even in the times when our patience does, and wears so thin and threadbare that we teeter on the brink of despair, our hearts remain strong and true.
It is a rare gift, and one I cherish, but not nearly as much as I cherish the love and presence in my life of the woman I love.
