Categories: Pyramid Poetry
Spiritual Notes, Perspectives
By: Steve Ridley
Serene eyes sensitively
scan nature’s responses to
Benevolent direction
Comforted by the intricate
Way continually at play
Nature thrives, survives,
endures willingly,
open to Nourishment
Purposefully each life-particle
resonates its contribution
Spherical dancing drama –
perpetually sanctioned cycles
bearing seasons of
life-giving dreams
Within the sacred continuum
all must seek.
– Steve Ridley
Spiritual Notes
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The quote is reminiscent of the thought shared by Swami Chetananda in the last issue of VFJ.
“In essence we are ever Whole, Complete and Content. We do not lack in any sense, for we are the perpetual Being that sustains all expressions of Itself. Operating through an individually conditioned mind-body, we take on the concept and sensation of being separate from the totality of life’s multidimensional processes. We maintain an individual personality, exhibiting uniqueness, while harboring personal likes and dislikes, as we interact with others. The dilemma is that by identifying exclusively as an individualized expression, we forsake our Essential Fullness. Awakening, we recognize that we are the Eternal Being operating through individualized mind-body functioning, in order to express creatively and uniquely in time and space. We have entered into a grand drama in which we are but playing a part; a relative viewpoint of one perpetual Being. We are the oceanic Being, expressing as individualized wavelets. In this understanding we recognize the true Unity of all beings.
– Steve Ridley
Perspectives … In Motion and Stillness
Topics: Heightened Awareness, Meditation, Poetry
Originally appeared in: June 1996