Wednesday, September 23, 2009
After Beethoven
After Beethoven
We have learned
to avoid
the heroic.
To keep our heads down,
never expect too much,
a portion more bitter
than sweet.
Who knows when
the next wave
will wipe out
a familiar city,
fire swallow a country
where we once visited,
vehicles arrive
from the sky
to desolate
what we hold dear.
This is our lot,
our chosen destiny,
to be alive
in this moment
when “crisis
equals change”
and nothing is predictable.
We wish it
would stop happening,
that something
would make it
go away.
We long for childhood churches
with pews,
schools with teachers
who wore
high necked dresses,
bankers we could trust
with our piggy banks.
We are weary
of catastrophe,
disasters
mounting relentlessly
like abandoned
corpses,
irrational happenings
that we do not comprehend.
In the meantime
we comfort one another
as best we can,
cling to the subtle beauty of
words and images,
which remind us
that joy is still possible,
impulses woven into
the pattern
of transcendence,
or music
that exalts us,
meditations that quiet the spirit,
nature in its raw purity,
until we remember
that our world
is embedded in the midst
of chaos and confusion,
growing clangor and din.
And even then,
something happens inside,
once more
a flowing sweetness,
again a knowing of
oneness with all,
a voice that tells us,
this is not the end,
there is never an end
of anything,
only cycles of becoming,
the world heart opening,
spring birthing itself once more,
always new beginnings,
and whispers of
new universes to come.
Dorothy Walters
September 22, 2009
The above picture is from the Hubble Website, which has this to say about this galaxy:
This giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across, or nearly twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. About 100 billion of them could be similar to our Sun.
We should always keep in mind that Kundalini is not just an energy that runs through our individual bodies, it is the great creative force of the universe itself. Its manifestations are vast, its power immeasurable. Some call it God.
(Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana), and STScI
Credit for CFHT Image: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/ J.-C. Cuillandre/Coelum
Credit for NOAO Image: G. Jacoby, B. Bohannan, M. Hanna/ NOAO/AURA/NSF)
