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“Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

Posted byNeilo@griefandpoetrySeptember 8, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:griefandpoetry, poetryandinspirationLeave a comment on “Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

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“Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

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[...and the bubbles are memory. They remember what the atmosphere was like, what it contained at that time. And I love this thought of ice as having a memory.]

[The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light....The real work of deep grief is making a home there.]

How do we trust our heart as a reliable guide that holds immense wisdom? How do we then become better at using this wisdom for living with increased equanimity and self-compassion, and as something we can count on? We must become students of the heart and observe the ebb and flow of emotions within and across this glorious muscle. Noticing is the first step towards using the heart as a guide in everything we do.

[...The storm is not as important as the path it opens. The mistreatment in one life never as crucial as the clearing it makes in your heart....]

A few other gems from Mark Nepo:

Next to radical listening, attentiveness, and compassionate presence, healing work requires silence to be effective, whether poetry is used or not. Silence allows our embodied experience—what is “sensed” in our head, heart, bellies, limbs, in our whole body—to more easily emerge. This is a necessarily precondition for making meaning of what is sensed there. Psychotherapist and author Francis Weller articulates this here: “Silence is a practice of emptying, of letting go. It is a process of hollowing ourselves out so we can open to what is emerging. Our work is to make ourselves receptive....” (The Wild Edge of Sorrow, 2015) Silence then, is the invitation and opening to reception. We may more easily, then, notice fragments of our heart and soul that can provide some reflective understanding, absorption, and grace.

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