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Who Says Words With My Mouth?

Wed, 30 May 2012 10:21:49 +1000

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.

Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?

I have no idea.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,

and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.

When I get back around to that place,

I’ll be completely sober. Meanwhile,

I’m like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.

The day is coming when I fly off,

but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?

Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?

I cannot stop asking.

If I could taste one sip of an answer,

I could break out of this prison for drunks.

I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry, I never know what I’m going to say.

I don’t plan it.

When I’m outside the saying of it,

I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

- Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

One of my very favourite films and very favourite plays which I...

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:52:00 +1000

One of my very favourite films and very favourite plays which I intend to watch again very soon: ’Vanya on 42nd Street’. Here’s the trailer for your viewing pleasure…

Just a bit of time travel to the future…

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:12:06 +1000

Just a bit of time travel to the future…

A Walk - by Rainer Maria Rilke My eyes already touch the sunny...

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:04:38 +1000

A Walk - by Rainer Maria Rilke

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Now that’s my kinda dancing - love it! I think Thom Yorke...

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:05:43 +1000

Now that’s my kinda dancing - love it!

I think Thom Yorke must have been to some 5 Rhythms sessions…

Radiohead - Lotus Flower (by radiohead)

sydneyrudolfsteinercollege: How Does Someone Train To Be A...

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:02:45 +1000

sydneyrudolfsteinercollege:

How Does Someone Train To Be A Steiner Teacher?

‘…In a lecture to the first Waldorf teachers, Rudolf Steiner said: “We must find our way more and more toward our task, which is to make human beings truly human. It sounds simple. But grand and complex questions are raised by this statement. What exactly is “truly human?” Herein lies the key to preparing Waldorf teachers. Their humanity is what has to be developed. That’s all…’

- read on…

Steiner does TED talks! ‘…the most important thing...

Wed, 09 May 2012 12:08:56 +1000

Steiner does TED talks!

‘…the most important thing is to establish an education through which human beings learn once again how to live with one another…’ Rudolf Steiner

How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead One of my...

Wed, 02 May 2012 17:43:10 +1000

How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead

One of my favourites…

Come to a Dusk Ceremony at Rookwood Necropolis with...

Wed, 02 May 2012 11:29:25 +1000

Come to a Dusk Ceremony at Rookwood Necropolis with me…

The Dusk Ceremony falls at a time of the year where we honour the completion of our growing season, of harvest and the lighter more active months. We enter into our time of rest and renewal. In these months, we begin to dream and conceive the seeds of possibility, for when spring comes. In many spiritual and religious traditions this is the time of year for renewal and for the deep, transforming power of rest within the growing darkness.

In the southern hemisphere, seasonally, this is our ‘Halloween’ the time of year where the veils between our worlds are the thinnest.

This year it follows Easter, also a time of rebirth and renewal.

This ceremony, conducted within a civil context, celebrates the beautiful surrounds of Rookwood and invites people to lay to rest what is passed, what is done and to begin to kindle what may come from here. We are celebrating the time of ‘in between’ – of transformation when you are not yet one thing or another, a powerful and often uncertain time, that we bathe in light, music, song, fire and a warm soup to set us on our way.

Gathering and Ceremony, 4:30 – 6:00pm
We will from our time in the Serpentine Canal and make our way a short distance to the Elephant House. There will be a ceremony at Dusk inside the Elephant House at the conclusion of which, people light their lanterns. There will be all elements represented- earth, air, water, incense, mounds of earth in which we can place whatever we lay to rest.

The ceremony will be followed by a fire, soup and bread.

Click here for more details

Great new track, atmospheric and bittersweet, from a musical duo...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:34:49 +1000

Great new track, atmospheric and bittersweet, from a musical duo whom I may just know the identity of…. :) (No, it’s not me).

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:27:33 +1000

carynw:

We must stop posting poignant quotes, then behave or support others’ behaviour that is highly contrary to the sentiment.

"We must work on our etheric bodies. We must transform the qualities of our temperament to the extent..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:41:42 +1000

““We must work on our etheric bodies. We must transform the qualities of our temperament to the extent that we can, for instance, consciously alter our movements, our gait and our handwriting. It is not enough to become a more ethical person. We must become a different person.””

- Rudolf Steiner via Waldorf Today

Clean energy…global economics…spirituality: next...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:18:08 +1000

Clean energy…global economics…spirituality: next film to download and watch…. ‘THRIVE’

"True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:01:38 +1000

“

True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.

”

- Tao Te Ching

"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:00:18 +1000

““Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others…for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.””

- Albert Einstein (via app1ejuice)

Source: http://www.ethical.org.au

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:11:49 +1000

Source: http://www.ethical.org.au

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:17:10 +1000

“

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood–
A lord of nature weeping to a tree,
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall,
That place among the rocks–is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.

A steady storm of correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is–
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.

Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

”

- Theodore Roethke; ‘In a Dark Time’

"‘My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:53:32 +1000

“

‘My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;

Borne to the ocean, I float down, around,
Into a sea profound of ever-spreading sound.

Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions

And we sail on, away, afar.
Without a course, without a star,
But, by the instinct of sweet music driven;

Beyond the glassy gulfs we flee
Of shadow-peopled Infancy,
Through Death and Birth, to a diviner day;

”

- ‘Prometheus Unbound’, Shelley

Be An Ethical Consumer… Where was it made? Who owns the...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:14:41 +1000

Be An Ethical Consumer…

Where was it made?

Who owns the company that made it?

What is it made of and how was it produced?

Who made it and under what conditions?

How many times can I use it?

What is it packaged in?

What happens to it after I use it?

"Meditative Prayer Against Fear May the events that seek me Come unto me; May I receive them With a..."

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:08:49 +1000

“

Meditative Prayer Against Fear

May the events that seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With a quiet mind
Through the Father’s ground of peace
On which we walk

May the people who seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With an understanding heart
Through the Christ’s stream of love
In which we live.

May the spirits who seek me
Come unto me;
May I receive them
With a clear soul
Through the healing Spirit’s Light
By which we see.

”

- Adam Bittleston, ‘Meditative Prayers for Today’