[Thespiritexpress] Origin by William O'Daly

[Riantee Rand]

Thank you. I got so much from reading it again.
Can you please remind me of the date for the breathing session at your house and how to get there.
Somehow I can’t find the poster.

> On Sep 3, 2024, at 13:06, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> This is the poem I read during Tuesday's Pathwork class today: 
> 
> 
> Origin
>  
> Long ago you and I struggled to be born
> among the standing stones,
> underground fire, mineral rain,
> furrows of imagination yellowed by the sun.
> Our immobile blood burned blue
> even as the wind shaped
> our serene incarnation.  We deciphered
> the doors of the earth, found the one to open
> on who we would become.
> Our still-closed eyes strived to name oneness,
> to behold the mystery of our bodies
> falling in a rage of flame, in the rhythms
> and textures of our appetites.  We tuned ourselves
> to sow and reap, shepherd and slaughter,
> to be true to many selves
> and the singularity
> from which we came.
> Forging weapons that turn night to day
> we meditated on the clouds
> littered with the psalms of migrating birds.
> We mourned the wild horses,
> the range stripped of native forage.
> The prayer wheel spun us at our core
> as we labored to learn that how
> we live is what we leave behind.
>  
> Returning to the solace of not seeking,
> we need no face or syllable or seed,
> as we come to know in our hearts
> what we cannot know any other way.
>  
>           ~ William O’Daly
>  
>  
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