by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
The E in EXPAND. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke. The Waking Slow down. Begin with settling on an experience to explore and consider what you hope to come away...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Enlarging–The Heart Finds a Focus “That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it’s your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.” Eckard Tolle What is (what I call our Inspiration) cannot be fully presented as a...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
The Warmup “It (spontaneity) propels the individual towards an adequate response to a new situation or a new response to an old situation. Thus, while creativity is related to the act itself, spontaneity is related to the warming up to the readiness of the act.” ...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Essential Inquiry Which of the many creatures (Who live in the wild fields and forests inside of me) will dominate today? Who or how will I be? What will I embody? And who will decide? Pre-suppositions of the Heart-drama: In the Heart-drama, there’s a healing...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Emptied of Majesty “Why was light given to man, whose way is hid, whom God hath hedged in?” Job 3:23 To begin to deconstruct the myth, I would suggest we explore the drama which at the beginning to this inquiry we have called The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. In our...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
John Keats I think John Keats, an English Romantic poet, long dead, has still something to offer us. I do see him as part of a rebel force, if not exactly Luke Skywalker; in his time, not unlike ours, the Romantics were heroically fighting against philosophical,...