Best points in music and poetry are nestled between vibrational pitch notes and between lexicon defined words. Too often we focus on the emptiness of doing mind tricks of busy-ness, making it our busy-ness to be busy, like human doings instead of human beings.
Am I first a doer of goodness? Or am I better off first attending to my potential of loving kindness? Am I being loving? Or am I busy doing some loving to-do list?
Poet first, then typist.
Be, then do.
Attend first to the floodlight mode of human context, then and only then attend to your spotlight of word-smithing talent and potential poetry.
I try to grok in fullness, but I am only an egg. I feel I must listen to the silence before barking my noise. Then the next silence, the next unknowing after the know-it-all yapping and doing, becomes a more beautiful silence.
Thanks, Tom. Helpful insights and practices - your invitation resonates!
Allow me to share this substack which, hopefully, opens up other possibilities for practicing presence
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https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerarendse/p/standing-together-in-awe-part-2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ql0vi
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Me musing:
Best points in music and poetry are nestled between vibrational pitch notes and between lexicon defined words. Too often we focus on the emptiness of doing mind tricks of busy-ness, making it our busy-ness to be busy, like human doings instead of human beings.
Am I first a doer of goodness? Or am I better off first attending to my potential of loving kindness? Am I being loving? Or am I busy doing some loving to-do list?
Poet first, then typist.
Be, then do.
Attend first to the floodlight mode of human context, then and only then attend to your spotlight of word-smithing talent and potential poetry.
I try to grok in fullness, but I am only an egg. I feel I must listen to the silence before barking my noise. Then the next silence, the next unknowing after the know-it-all yapping and doing, becomes a more beautiful silence.
Thanks, Tom.
mark spark
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