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Transformation

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There is available to us a form of transformation

“There is available to us, a form of transformation which, each time it is applied, extends and enhances the wholeness of the land, and the act of using this process of transforming puts us in touch with ourselves. This means that it makes the land of the Earth become more and more deeply connected to […] Poem

Moulting

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

The Quality of the Fool – Part V

Part V of The Way of the Fool: the Fool not as a philosophy but as a quality of consciousness — a way of meeting life rather than a doctrine to hold. Essay

A Medley of Fools Heralds the Journey Within the Journey – Part IV

Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald. 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

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light

It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light George William Russell, or AE as he preferred to be called, Meditation in Candle of Vision (1918): THERE is no personal virtue in me other than this that I followed a […] 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 […] Poem

this One will live yet

Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring. Library

Suffering is unnecessary. But one has to suffer before he is able to realise that this is so.

“Once I thought that I had been wounded as no man ever had. Because I felt thus I vowed to write this book. But long before I began the book the wound had healed. Since I had sworn to fulfil my task I reopened the horrible wound. Let me put it another way . . […] Poem

The Little Man Dancing in My Heart

Perhaps we do not find God so much as make God, a little more with every day we live. Library

Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life?

Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird. […] “…one day, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, you shall […] Poem

Promise of a Man

The awkward attempt at being human, with so much lizard still under the tailcoat.

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