Whatever we do there is a purpose in it
After a time of attending Quaker meetings, you will hear such phrases as ‘Centring down’ and ‘Finding your centre’. What I take this to mean is we reach a place where we are content, in the moment, have no fears, no anything other than the presence of the moment.
So I have fallen into a practice where I find a sitting position in which I am comfortable though alert. It is as if I am finding the centre of my see-saw where I balance. Perhaps I am using the bench and my body position to find the physical balance and in doing find my internal balance.
In that place, I often see what I could describe as daydreams. This morning I saw a stone being dropped into a pond the pond later became a well.
I believe the stone was symbolising me dropping into my centre though the stone kept falling as if there was no centre. Finally, it hit the waters of the earth and was absorbed into it.
This then got me thinking in reverse so instead of us being dropped what about seeing us as water that finds a spring from which we appear. The well that is built around a spring symbolises our bodies.
Outside the meeting house this morning I saw this caterpillar, at least I believe it was, flying about the air and seemingly moving upwards.
Cee and her mum went to the South Coast today for a few days. I arrived home to find that she had left her bag with purse and phone. Do I wait until they discover it missing or do I make a phone call knowing that I am likely to be asked to do something? I phone and I am asked to drive about 70 miles with the bag. I really don’t want to do it though somehow I agreed to it, is something working?
So I am driving down the motorway knowing that I will travel back up this same road when the imagery from this morning returns. The imagery brings with it further thoughts. The round trip can seem senseless yet it could also symbolise ‘The Hobbit’s’ journey of going round in a circle though being changed in the journey.
I then had this idea that we are propelled from unconsciousness into consciousness first by conception and then our birth. Rather than being dropped like a stone we are catapulted into life.
The circular nature of our journey means that we will return from where we came so perhaps the falling is more about the midway point of our lives when we begin to return home.
It reminded me of a very simple exercise that I found profound. You draw a straight line. The straight line represents your life. One end is the beginning of it the other the end
beginning___________________________X________________________end
You then mark where you believe you are right now.
Tell me your reaction to that exercise?
So if life is a circle sense your midpoint which is probably your peak and then know that it is not so much death that begins but a return to the source. We have been gifted like a spring to materialise on this earth for a time though will return to our source.
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PS that trip took just over an hour, quicker than I thought though took 5 1/2 hours coming back, what does that symbolise?
