Tracking The Zeal Of Eternity

High Plains View from the Hero’s Journey® Wilderness Intensive Base Camp - near Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published "You have a right to do anything you feel you have the courage to do." - Joseph Campbell Reflecting on this singular declaration is a ‘game-changer’. Do another ‘close reading’ of Campbell’s penetrating words. Sit with this sentence for a while. Allow it to stir something up in you.

Photo by Jordan Madrid on Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night.These are the words we dimly hear: Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published You, sent out beyond your recall,go to the limits of your longing. Embody me.

Photo by Jordan Madrid on Unsplash God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

From Jordan Madrid in Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.

From Jordan Madrid on Unsplash Being Called Into Existence This ‘Track’ takes me back once again to the echoes of a Rilke poem, that I have reflected upon and written about before. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me.

Photo by Jordan Madrid on Unsplash “There is another world, but it is in this one.” - Paul Eluard In these days, when we receive so much noise from the bad news of the day, we get thrown off track and we lose our center. We lose track of our creative impulses that gives meaning to what really matters to us in our own day to day life. What can we do to get back on track?

These are the kind of urgent times that call for an intentional slowing down, of not following our first reactive impulses towards what we are encountering in our lives, and to instead, rest into the potential space within beyond all you already know, and what you are about to discover. Based on the Hafiz poem, Now Is The Time. Michael Mervosh

Image by Jay Castor on Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published “There are places in meI simply don’t want to know,I don’t want you to know – Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I distract my energy to make sureI won’t stay aware of them, that you don’t ever become aware of them –so I don’t expose myself to you,or get myself exposed by you,too publicly,too shamefully,too red-faced embarrassed,humiliated.

Photo by Jay Castor on Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets. When you find your way to the circle, to the fire kept burning by the keepers of your soul, you will be welcomed. You must clean yourself with cedar, sage, or other healing plant. Cut the ties you have to failure and shame.

In the Northern Hemisphere, we have arrived at winter’s solstice point – the darkest day of the year. It marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, a time when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky. A solstice is when ‘the sun stands still’. Darkness dominates the landscape most fully at this time.