Tag: insight

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Clarity, Tantalus Mountain Range, Squamish, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Clarity

A facebook friend challenged 16 of her friends, including me, to each write down 16 random notes about themselves, post it as a note, then ask 16 of their friends to do the same. A neat challenge.

I didn’t intend to write the following, it’s just what came out. It’s not really what the challenge called for, so I’ll go back and try that one again. But I thought it was worth posting anyway. . .so here it is.

1. There’s a spiritual sensation of connectedness I get from time to time, a few moments in time that feel as though I’m connected to and can sense the existence of all things, an awareness that there is a grand spiritual reality beyond my rational ken that is graspable by my ever developing being.

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After the Storm, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Between

I am the storm
I am the waves battering the shore
The wind bending the trees

I am the sun
In a merciless sky
Casting heat shimmers on the endless sand

I am the night
Starless, moonless
An impenetrably dark fortress of isolation

I am too the calm
When the air is a puff of fragrant breeze
And birdsong carries for miles

And I am the earth
Fertile and life-giving
The solid ground underfoot

And I am the light
Illuminating the deepest darkness
Connected to all that is and ever will be