Interiority refers to a richer perceptual universe and awareness of self.*
Peter Senge

*Peter Senge’s The Necessary Revolution.

Characters empower us to reflect, to know ourselves from within and without.*
Robert McKee

Soul teachers … talk openly and honestly about what is actually going on … .**
Martha Beck

The stories we read or watch have to be
way more interesting than our own stories,
The characters need to be more compelling
than real life so that we stay engaged, and
finish the book or movie or box-set:
The more specific, dimensional,
unpredictable, and difficult to understand,
the more fascinating and more real a character seems.
The more generalised, more consistent,
more predictable, and easy to understand, the less real,
the less interesting, and more
cartoonish she seems.*

What these characters highlight for us is that it is possible
to leave the real, or ordinary, world for a while each day,
So we might spend a little time in a special world in which we
contemplate how to develop ourselves
as characters that are
more specific, dimensional, unpredictable,
More complex,
Before returning to the real world,
But it’s a new real world –
Different.^

*Robert McKee’s Character;
**Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity;
^This is what dreamwhispering proffers.

What am I? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed. I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. … I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name of Goethe.*
Wolfgang von Goethe

You are unrepeatable,
Anything but a copy,
And yet, the reason for this
is your openness to others and all
around you –
Teachers and guides
Are not only human.

Perhaps so far unnoticed,
We now lean into this path, and
the only term that has come to me
so far for walkers of this path is
The Wise.

*Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air.

fungible a. (of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.

In life one cannot awaken often enough the sense of a beginning within oneself. There is so little external change needed for that since we actually transform the world from within our hearts. If the heart longs for nothing but to be new and unlimited, the world is instantly the same as on the day of its creation and infinite.*
Rainer Maria Rilke

There is an
irreplaceable
contribution
that you are able to
add
to the lives of
others.

Let me know if
you need some help in
identifying what
this
might be;
Though you may have
been treated
as a
commodity,
There is more
within
to get
out.

*Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Life.

‘How do you grow?’ said night
‘How do you keep it in the day?’
‘To keep what I have,’ said light
‘I have to give it away’
Lemn Sissay

a mentor arrives after a call to adventure
Martha Beck

Every one of us is a generative being,
Giving away what makes us who we are,
Only to find that we have more:
Giving and more forming us into guides.

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in;
**Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity.

Listen to what your life calls you to do.*
Otto Scharmer

*Otto Scharmers Theory U.

If someone is copying you
Remember thereupon
Anyone can find the switch
When the lights are on*
Lemn Sissay

If you opened an old can of pork and beans and found a genie inside who said – Boy it is great to be out of that can!! Thank you! In return I would like to release you from your can. Would a feeling of aliveness be enough?**
Lynda Barry

Every morning with my journaling,
I gather texts from many
books and blogs,
I’m ceaselessly fascinated by what
can emerge
from bringing together different texts in
various permutations.

Here’s the story today’s tell me:
I hadn’t realised I was in a can
for so many years –
After all,
There was a whole world in my old tin –
But when a genie sprung my lid,
I discovered a far bigger world of seemingly
endless ideas and brighter possibilities –
A world in which everyone
has the capacity to be a genie in some way
to others.

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in;
** Lynda Barry’s What It Is.

Ecoutez le murmure
De la lune et soleil
A l’aube, ils chantent
‘Accueil, accueil’*
Lemn Sissay

Because we have a basic need for awe wired into our brains and bodies, finding awe is easy if we take a moment and wonder.**
Dacher Keltner

We are creatures made for worship:
From the Old English weorthscipe –
Acknowledging worthiness –
We discover there are many generators of
worthship, or worship:
Nature, music, ideas, athleticism, god:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes …
O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware …^

Dacher Keltner provides this question
to guide us:
What is an experience of awe
that you have had,
when you encountered a vast mystery
that transcends your
understanding of the world?**

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in:
Listen to the whisper
of the moon and sun
At dawn, they sing
‘Welcome, welcome’;
**Dacher Keltner’s Awe;
^Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air.

simulacrum (n)
an image or representation of someone or something.
an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.

The surface life is a simulacrum of something we intuit inside ourselves but have not yet really brought to life from the depths. All the time we are slowly in retreat from our own frontier.*
David Whyte

Deep down your dream lies
whispering …
Still whispering.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea.

We not only create stories for metaphors for life, we create them as metaphors for a meaningful life. To live meaningfully is to be at perpetual risk. … If, should the protagonist fail, life would go back to normal, the story isn’t worth telling.*
Robert McKee

Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity – taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.**
Krista Tippett

Why retire and
move 200 miles?

Good question –
And we always need a good question.

*Robert McKee‘s newsletter: A Little Risk Goes a Long Way;
**Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise.