Carrying death with you on your beautiful quest

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Carrying death with you on your beautiful quest

New life calls. I circle the vastness, potency and intelligence of the Self.¹ It’s a lifelong quest.  I will die and be reborn many times. The Self sees my quest as beautiful. I find the journey from ‘little me’ to ‘greater I’ disorientating. I undergo metamorphosis. ² My old life dies so a new ‘way of being’ can be born. I feel the companionship of death as I move through a landscape of change.³ Beauty takes my hand.

So now I join you on your quest
My eyes of light
See
Every death

For all, that’s small and cannot be
Must die its death
To
Set you free

You are the seed, I am the sprout
You die to let
The
Promise out

The life that links the two as one
‘Jerusalem’
Is
Just begun
⁴

¹ The ‘circling’ image is influenced by the poet; Rainer Maria Rilke. ‘I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.’ From; The Book of Hours.

² Self-realisation involves Metamorphosis. The caterpillar (little me) enters the darkness of the chrysalis. The caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis; the butterfly (greater I) emerges. Many sayings were given during the chrysalis stage of metamorphosis and continue on as the butterfly emerges. The sayings educate on the process of Self-realisation and the nature of ‘the butterfly.’

See saying 124: ‘It’s a unifying mutual metamorphosis.’

³ The Self sees the process of metamorphosis as a ‘beautiful quest.’ An old ‘way of life loses its power. A new ‘way of being’ is yet to be born. The potential butterfly struggles betwixt and between.

⁴ The poem is in the voice of the Self (or ‘the Promise’). The Self’s ‘eyes of light’ see the many deaths the pilgrim must pass through before reaching the ‘Jerusalem’ of union with the Self.

Meditation; are you passing through a form of death? If so, what is it that’s dying? Are you hoping for a rebirth? Speak to the Self about your fears and hopes. Now be still. Listen for the voice of the inner guide. If you don’t hear the Self; simply sit in stillness. Be open to the Self.