New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

An ideal is essential
To pursue and manifest
As possible here and now.
However let’s not forget
It’s an ideal, that it is.

Human reality differs:
Shortcomings, stumbles
They are an integral part
Inextricable from being
Here in this outer world
Of duality and matter
Positive and negative
And all the contrasts
Helping and enabling
One to be motivated
To reach beyond it all.

Exemplified by an ideal
Manifested in the flow
Humans may master
Also teach their way
That they found to be
A working one and only
They practice and pursue
As ideal in the flow
Of life and love
Divine as can be
But still human too
Aiming for the ideal
The very love of God.

An essential ideal — is it idiopathic?

Essential: 1) absolutely necessary; extremely important. 2) in medicine: with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic: relating to or denoting a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. — Q1

Ideal: a person or thing regarded as perfect; a standard or principle to be aimed at. — Q2

An ideal is a principle or value that an entity actively pursues as a goal and holds above other concerns perceived as being less meaningful. — Q3

— Q1 and Q2 from Google word definitions, Q3 from Wikipedia,

One thing leads to the next.

Let go and open the door
For the old to go out a way
And the new to come on in.

There may be a moment
When the old has gone
And the new’s not yet in
A rest point in eternity
To relish all in silence.

Maybe there is no need
For something new at all
After the old was let go
And freedom took over
Live the present moment
As it is — was — and will be
Without old, without new
Just here and now, as it is
Navigating the flow of life
And love does carry it all
No thought nor image
But reality all by itself
Divine inside and out.

Infinite cannot be counted
Stop measuring and enjoy
It is what it is and you are
I am that I am, have been
And continue to be, soul
No more and also no less
Welcome the celebration!

Good one to the next

“Goodness is … not merely a norm, but something alive: It is a gesture of relationship. The good, when it is transformed and comes alive, is love.
For the mystical experience, therefore, being embedded in an encompassing spirit, the ‘great life’, is not being bound by law — the principle of the good — but being embraced by a loving being. … Under cold law, the good is ‘the right thing’: We may follow it and obey it; we may recognize it or even manipulate it. But to a being in whom the good is the relational gesture of love, we are able to surrender in the heart. In this, spirit and human face … each other in a friendly and loving way.”
— Kontexte des Segens, I Ging: Das Buch der Wandlungen, Thomas Primas, vom “grossen Leben” und seinem Sinn

Allergic freedom

A good friend of mine
Once upon God’s time
I knew better than most
Developed a sixth sense.
You might call it an allergy
To absolutes and exclusivity
And to make one look good
At the expense of others.

He thought it a quality
And offered it as service
To strengthen and to purify
What he held sacred and dear
Specifically the holy scriptures
Of his chosen spiritual path
He so fully made his own
As he applied this trait.

But he was condemned
His service not welcome
In this most essential form
His dedication put in question
And his stature torn apart.

Deprived, rather freed
Of a crutch used so long
Forced to stand on his own
In the end it held its promise
Leading to spiritual freedom
As he rooted deep and firm
In divine light and sound
The very love of God.

Allergic freedom — Which way is up? And which way is down?

“Here is the cutting to the chase: There is a point at which your spiritual practice and your spiritual lexicon, your language for it, your concepts about what spirituality is, your accumulated experience of spiritual activity, just simply falls away. It becomes indistinguishable from living life. There is no difference between inner life and outer life, ideally.”
— from Not on the Radio with W. A. Mathieu, November 12, 2018