CONTEMPLATION

These are a series of thoughts and exercises that may spark new insight or awareness about your journey through life and living. There are no assignments here, just possibilities for spending time with yourself in contemplation of your time with 'the others' of your world.

Contempation One:
This poem form Robert Browning expresses the importance of knowing that what is within us is manifested outside us.
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, what e'er you may believe
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness
....and to know,
Rather consist in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape,
Then in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.
(Browning, Paracelsus 13 cited in Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth)

Are your inner and outer worlds in integrity? Are they a true mirror of each other? Journal your insights while you spend time in the natural world whether it be a park, beside the ocean or in your own backyard.

Contemplation Two:
"I chiseled the names of my paternal ancestors on three stone tablets and placed them in the courtyard of the Tower. I painted the ceiling with motifs from my own and my wife's (faily coat of) arms. When I was working on the tablets, I became aware of the fateful links between me and my ancestors. I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my partents and grandparents and more distant ancestors." C.G.Jung in Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
How do you feel in your connections to your ancestors?
Do you have a sense of Home wherever you are?