closer than breathing

   

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Instead of the old myths of death and resurrection, of victory and twilight of the gods, which the Enlightenment removed from people’s consciousness, the nineteenth century has justified the barren idea that life moves like some sort of transportation on a straight road, and that one can increase speed or change direction. 

However, life never advances one-dimensionally, neither forwards nor backwards; neither upwards nor downwards – it rather breathes in space.


—Georg Götsch
Die Jugendbewegung als Volksgewissen

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... the most fundamental scientific ‘fact’ is not the existence of a universe of things in space and time but awareness of such a universe.

Awareness is not a ‘thing’ that can evolve from or arise out of an unaware or insentient universe of things. On the contrary, all things in the universe emerge and take shape out of a universal awareness. 


—Peter Wilberg
The Awareness Principle

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Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. 

For everything that rises must converge.


—Pierre Teilhard De Chardin 

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and knows,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.


—Rumi

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Far away, hidden from the eyes of daylight, there are watchers in the skies.

—Euripides

The Bacchae c. 406 BC,

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