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Touching The Timeless
There comes a time when we must allow something timeless to touch us in order to truly change and move beyond our fixed attitudes and limited understanding of the mysteries of life. When it seems like all might end in disaster, it becomes a question of finding the deeper imagination of life, the enduring patterns and essential stories that reunite us to the pulse of nature and the heart of culture.”
I’m not talking in religious terms, I’m talking in the old language of spirit and soul and saying what so many old stories say, that we are each secretly connected to something divine and to the dream of the world, which must take a new shape again, as it has done many times. And when it does, we will be asked to be there and to see it with new eyes. But for this moment, I’m reminded of something written by Ikkyu, that wild Zen poet and monk, who sought to remind us that no matter what circumstances of sequester we might find ourselves in, “we cannot help but be who we are and where.”
We may have to suffer a time of surprising restriction. But the old idea was that freedom is actually the active, imaginative mind. And another old idea stated that the unimaginative mind is paralyzed by its own doubt. And if we refuse to feel the doubt and suffer the despair, and if we deny the feelings flooding through us and flooding through the world, we may not find that deeper place. — Michael Meade
