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Monday, December 2, 2013

The Shifting Shadows of Life...

The self is just a shadow, a mist, a thin layer of the real...

I’ve been noticing the long shadows lately, although it seems early in the season.  These photos are from November.  The shadows call to me for some reason.  They seem longer than usual for this time of year, maybe a sign of my aging… J  They evoke melancholy, but also unexpectedly soothe.  They are enchanting, bringing me into the space of Infinite Isness - just Being.  As I watch, they move and change within minutes, coming and going, eventually dissolving and disappearing - like the shadow self that we think is real - the form and the Formless intersecting.  Somehow I find this strangely comforting - this dance of shadow and light…



“I am a terminal commuter…
The things I once believed in
are no longer there,
no longer exist…”

Author Unknown





Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency…

All is visible and all elusive…

Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names…

The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.

I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself…

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go.
I am a pause.

Octavio Paz





“Your self-identity is a shadow,
the divine is a boundless,
loving presence
that takes you
into
ItSelf…”

Open the Door


Wayne Teasdale
The Mystic Heart



2 comments:

  1. This is lovely observation, Christine! I've often found shadows comforting too. I like that line from Octavio Paz... "I am a pause"...Shadows are bit like that, a pause in time. I think I read somewhere once that shadows are God watching over... That's a comforting thought too. :o) Happy Days ((HUGS))

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