Thou Art God
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cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Without knowing it, we, like Jung, work hard at cutting a path to our deeper self that waits patiently for us to arrive, all tired, aching, and out of breath. Once that path is cleared and once the being at our center is discovered, we can return to the world in relationship with our soul. We can discover a deeper, more peaceful sense of home.
As a Writer - and yes the capitalization is deliberate, I'm often crept up upon, or blatantly struck around the head by the question: are we those that write the events as they unfold, or are we simple the characters written upon the universe by some other writer - and is that writer ourself, writing ourself? It's one of those 'shape' questions... thought for the millennium.
These things are brought to mind by the questioning of today. There are no answers to give you - I have no answers, or perhaps I have the answer to them all.
Yes
Of course that answer you must interpret for yourselves.
On another level, the thought, am I awake now and living my life, or am I sleeping and dreaming that I'm awake and living my life... and when I dream, what is real, and what is imagined?
In Wicca, this question, and the thought of the dreamer finding self in prayer, waiting for oneself, to come to know one's soul, this thought can be embodied by the chant: We are a circle, within a circle, with no beginning and never ending, and in the questing statement Hu are you.
Unfortunately I can't find the reference I am looking for to illustrate this use of the word 'Hu,' but there is (or used to be) a book, within which is a teaching story - the story of a quest undertaken by a 'person' preparing for initiation (and what is initiation if not meeting ones own soul and becoming whole?) On this quest, the person meets many 'spirit guides' in the form of animals, and each one says to the initiate: "Hu are you." The initiate spends many such meetings dwelling upon the statement as a question, until at last realisation occurs that it is not a question at all, but an affirmation being made by each of the spirit guides. They were not asking of the initiate to define self - instead they were offering recognition of inherent divinity.
If anyone finds the story, do comment and let me know, please.
No matter where we dig or climb, we come upon the fire we left untended.
Without knowing it, we, like Jung, work hard at cutting a path to our deeper self that waits patiently for us to arrive, all tired, aching, and out of breath. Once that path is cleared and once the being at our center is discovered, we can return to the world in relationship with our soul. We can discover a deeper, more peaceful sense of home.
As a Writer - and yes the capitalization is deliberate, I'm often crept up upon, or blatantly struck around the head by the question: are we those that write the events as they unfold, or are we simple the characters written upon the universe by some other writer - and is that writer ourself, writing ourself? It's one of those 'shape' questions... thought for the millennium.
These things are brought to mind by the questioning of today. There are no answers to give you - I have no answers, or perhaps I have the answer to them all.
Of course that answer you must interpret for yourselves.
On another level, the thought, am I awake now and living my life, or am I sleeping and dreaming that I'm awake and living my life... and when I dream, what is real, and what is imagined?
In Wicca, this question, and the thought of the dreamer finding self in prayer, waiting for oneself, to come to know one's soul, this thought can be embodied by the chant: We are a circle, within a circle, with no beginning and never ending, and in the questing statement Hu are you.
Unfortunately I can't find the reference I am looking for to illustrate this use of the word 'Hu,' but there is (or used to be) a book, within which is a teaching story - the story of a quest undertaken by a 'person' preparing for initiation (and what is initiation if not meeting ones own soul and becoming whole?) On this quest, the person meets many 'spirit guides' in the form of animals, and each one says to the initiate: "Hu are you." The initiate spends many such meetings dwelling upon the statement as a question, until at last realisation occurs that it is not a question at all, but an affirmation being made by each of the spirit guides. They were not asking of the initiate to define self - instead they were offering recognition of inherent divinity.
If anyone finds the story, do comment and let me know, please.
