Our friend, the Kitten, had us over for movies and martinis...oh...and a little bit of food!
Listening to: A lovely scene from one of the films we watched -- wait for the brass.
Today's Bliss Formula: The Kitten sent us home with a completely-made-from-scratch cherry pie (she even had just picked the cherries), and we ate some for breakfast! How decadent! And for the geeks out there, we are watching the first two episodes of Stargate Atlantis, season five tonight! WOOT!
From Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours, edited by Kathleen Deignan:
Perhaps Sophia is the unknown, the dark, the nameless Ousia*.
Perhaps she is even the Divine Nature...
And perhaps she is in infinite light unmanifest,
not even waiting to be known as Light. This I do not know.
Out of the silence Light is spoken.
We do not hear it or see it until it is spoken.
Perhaps she is even the Divine Nature...
And perhaps she is in infinite light unmanifest,
not even waiting to be known as Light. This I do not know.
Out of the silence Light is spoken.
We do not hear it or see it until it is spoken.
(Ousia: Greek for being or substance. Feminine.)
and
In the Nameless Beginning, without Beginning, was the Light.
We have not seen this Beginning. I do not know where she is,
in this Beginning. I do not speak of her as a Beginning,
but as a manifestation.
We have not seen this Beginning. I do not know where she is,
in this Beginning. I do not speak of her as a Beginning,
but as a manifestation.
Hagia Sophia, Holy Wisdom, is always portrayed as feminine, female, and as having existed before or simultaneously with the male God.
Yin and Yang.
Light and Dark.
And thus my continued attraction to, need for a bit of Catholicism in my life: Mary as the most perfect human manifestation of Holy Wisdom, herself female.
Herself the light.
And thus I am light. As are you.
In Buddhism, they refer to this as our Ground Luminosity.
Sit with this idea. Listen for your inner light (as the Quakers would say).
Where is it guiding you?
3 comments:
Guiding me? A small light, that I so often ignored, that has been damped but not extinguished, if that is even possible - that I'm trying to learn how to fan, to see, to allow to light my way.
The Light guides all of us every waking moment if we are just open to the realization. Loved this post! Thanks again. Peace and blessings.
bojosmom
I am particularly fond of the idea of listening for light. I like how the mixing of the senses tricks your brain just enough that you can understand and know things a slightly different way -- even if for only a moment.
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