Wholeness – Marcus Demetrius Link

Even such a small creature as I finds intimate shelter in their embrace

Heaven is my Father and Earth is my Mother, and even such a small creature as I finds intimate shelter in their embrace. Therefore, that which fills the universe I regard as my own body, and that which directs the universe I consider as my own nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, […] Library

The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.

“The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.” – Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd In the foreword to his historical novel, The Way of Wyrd, psychologist and shamanic consciousness researcher Brian Bates […] Library

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 […] Library

On Wholeness & Inwardness: The universe is not a thoughtlessly static and inert whole—the cosmos is not lazy, but energetically dynamic and even creative.

Wholeness & Inwardness Wholeness and inwardness are two key notions put forward by Jan Smuts in his book Holism and Evolution, published in 1926. Smuts’ ideas around Holism sit somewhere between science and philosophy but go deeper yet. They were described by Albert Einstein as two of the most important concepts to shape the future […] 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

Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III

Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can. 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 […] Story

The Boy Jumps Ship

The Boy has been at sea all his life without knowing it. The day he wakes on the deck and sees the ship for the first time, he jumps. 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 . . […] Library

One Breath Around the World

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness

I am choosing to write this book to my sons. They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not written for them to read now but when they are grown and the pains and joys have tousled them a little. And […] 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 […] Library

Three Rules on Work

1- Out of clutter find simplicity; 2- From discord find harmony; 3- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. by Albert Einstein 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

Out of the World, Into its Middle

Written in May 2004 for my first-born son