"WILD GEESE" by Mary Oliver "Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine..."
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
This came through in one of our Wisdom Bridges Gatherings and I thought I would share it here also for everyone to partake.
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Perhaps we only have to let the soft animal of our body love what it loves.
My sense is that the fundamental nature of the Divine is Love, Itself. AND, in simply being and doing what we love, as individuals, we realize our Divine nature.
What could be more exciting? More life-full? More in rhythm with Ourself?
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And perhaps we can open to that by "You telling me your story and I'll tell you mine". A way to SEE what we cannot see when we keep our stories so shrouded in shame and guilt.
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the fundamental nature of the Divine is Love, Itself
And until we can move beyond our childish self serving perceptions of LOVE, we cannot grasp what Divinity is. That may be why we must tell our stories until we can grasp the greater dimensions of LOVE.
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