Insights From a Silent Pilgrimage

A complete rainbow at the summit of the hill. 

On one side sun, on the other rain. 

The rainbow at the boundary between light and shadow.

"The deeds and sufferings of light". 

Goethe

The woods battered by the weather, 

Trees with limbs missing and some fallen and broken. 

The scars of their experience. 

Nature just accepts and transforms the scars into new beauty. 

We also have our scars as we journey and gain new experience. 

The scars are the records of our life's pilgrimage - ever transforming, ever changing,

Transient like that rainbow, but leaving a record etched on our souls.

Based on a comment at: http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Re-Creating-Science-Meetup/events/228399196/

Growth in the pain

 Image from: http://lizhester.org/in-every-acorn-is-a-mighty-oak/

There is growth in the pain....

The oak seed shoot has to smash the acorn open to become a tree.

Living the journey into meaning

We start where we are......

Living the journey into meaning......

Meaning the journey in the living......

......Journeying the meaning in the living. 

We start as 'no-things'/'know-things'. 

We begin in the potential of possibilities. But we may also come with fear and lack of faith. We may try to push into the matter, where there is a resistance, which comes from past hurts. And the scars still show on our hardened and shadowed skins. 

The light is at the hub in our hearts. The light will speak as it radiates out to that permeable rim. And even then the shadows may synergise with that light to create the rainbow colours, which portray the full spectrum of who we are. 

When we start with meaning, it matters. The journey evolves of its own accord and the action comes at the appropriate time in the right way.

First published online as a comment at:

http://www.journeyschool.org/enacting/2016/2/12/creating-the-container-of-journey-school