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People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. 


—Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

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Spirit, rehearse the journeys of the body
that are to come, the motions

of the matter that held you.

Rise up in the smoke of palo santo.
Fall to the earth in the falling rain.
Sink in, sink down to the farthest roots.

Mount slowly in the rising sap
to the branches, the crown, the leaf-tips.
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.

Rise again in spring’s green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.
All earth’s dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.


—Ursula K. Le Guin

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Understand the secret unseen ways of
heart to heart contact like this:

When two lamps are being lit

The lamps will remain separate

But their light will become intermixed.


—Rumi

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