We do not need to put any strain whatsoever on our longing. If we believe that the body is in the soul and the soul is divine ground, then the presence of the divine is completely here, close with us.
“Pleasure is the tribute we owe to our dignity as human beings.” This is a profoundly spiritual perspective. Your senses link you intimately with the divine within you and around you.
- Attunement to the senses can linger up the stiffened belief and gentle the hardened outlook.
- It can warm and heal the atrophied feelings that are the barriers exiling us from ourselves and separating us from each other.
- Then we are no longer in exile from the wonderful harvest of divinity that is always secretly gathering within us.”
A renewal, indeed a complete transfiguration of your life, can come through attention to your senses. Your senses are the guides to take you deep into the inner world of your heart.
- The edge comes through the senses.
- The senses are our bridges to the world.
- Human skin is porous; the world flows through you.
- Your senses are large pores that let the world in.
- By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become in exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect have constructed.
Re-source: Re-present
Vision is central to your presence and creativity. To recognize how you see things can bring you self-knowledge and enable you to glimpse the wonderful treasures your life secretly holds.
It is startling truth that how you see and what you see determines how and who you will be.
- An interesting way of beginning to do some interior work is to explore your particular style of seeing.
- Ask yourself, what way do I behold the world?
- Through this question you will discover your specific pattern of seeing.
When you really gaze at something, you bring it inside you.
- One could write a beautiful spirituality on the holiness of the gaze.
The opposite of the gaze is the intrusive stare.
- When you re stared at, the eye of the other becomes tyrannical. You have become the object of the other’s stare in a humiliating, invasive, and threatening way.
“An object makes infinity private.” – Joseph Brodsky
craving and resource from “ANUM CARA” – A Book of Celtic Wisdom – by John O’Donohue