A dance with the unknown

The sense of wonder can also help you to recognise and appreciate the mystery of your life.*
John O’Donohue

With only slight exaggeration I would say that we are not; we constantly constitute ourselves anew and differently at the intersection of all those influences that teach into the sphere of our building.**
Rainer Maria Rilke

When we only allow ourselves to connect with
what we know about another,
It is likely that we want to control what we are doing, or,
Who they are, resulting in
a series of movements around one another;
Yet, if we dare be open to the unknown in each other –
And within ourselves –
There is the possibly of entering a
perichoretical dance of movement
through rather than around, enabling all participants
to further plumb the depths of who they are becoming and’/
what they are bringing.

*John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes;
**Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Life
;
(The doodle is a play with Lawrence Kushner’s God Was In This Place and I, I Did Not Know.

2 thoughts on “A dance with the unknown

  1. They’re invaluable for me; Rilke seems to exist in deep time, from the past but speaking from our future. O’Donohue is simply life-affirming.

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