Soul – Marcus Demetrius Link

Moulting

On parting as its own kind of death, and how keenly the loss is felt at first. Library

Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’

Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’ by John Keats (1891), Letter to his brother Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making.’ Then you will find out the use of the world… I say ‘Soul making’ Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence – There may be intelligences or sparks […] Library

After the Storm

After the Storm by Boris Pasternak The air is full of after-thunder freshness, And everything rejoices and revives. With the whole outburst of its purple clusters. The lilac drinks the air of paradise. The gutters overflow; the change of weather Makes all you see appear alive and new. Meanwhile the shades of sky are growing […] Library

What Was Told, That

What Was Told, That by Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207-1273 What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was […] Essay

About the Boy – Part I

Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice. Poem

Descending Into Myself

A meditation for the Fool, worked at across two decades, from 2001 to 2020. Story

The Soul Phone Won’t Stop Ringing

The Boy paces a hallway that will not let him arrive, between the bedrooms of his family, as the soul's phone rings and rings with news of death. Library

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead

In some such way as this we could gather up these strewn and scattered petals of song into one perfect rose of life, and yet, perhaps, in so doing, we might be missing the true quality of the poems; one’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead; and beautiful poems, […] Library

The life of every man is a way to himself, an attempt at a way, the suggestion of a path.

But every man is not only himself; he is also the unique, particular, always significant and remarkable point where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again. That is why every man’s story is important, eternal, sacred; and why every man while he lives and fulfils the will of nature […] Library

But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, […] Library

The Fool is not a philosophy, but a quality of consciousness of life

But there always exist in society some men and women whom the Fool touches, who respond to the Fool. For the Fool awakens the Fool in others, but in many the Fool is stifled, or sleeps. There are human beings living in isolation and loneliness in the society of men who realise suddenly that they […] Poem

Bits and Pieces of the Soul

A boy sits on the floor before a heap of shards and takes the broken pile for the centre of his life. Poem

The Masterpiece of Art

We are each born an artist, and the masterpiece is the shaping of our own soul, worked at from 1998 to 2000.