It was all and only through the artist and
poet being as nothing: as open to the winds of the Spirit to blow through them
as though they weren’t there; no impermeable bodies of knowledge barricading
against things new. The future of creative expression, in all fields, was as
dynamic as we were prepared to let it be. Although it would seem to go against
our common sense the key to development wasn’t to hold on, but to let go.
To experience currents of air sweeping through you, you had to be in the
air. To find spiritual things you had to live and move and have your being in
the Spirit. In every place where the mountain river was, the water was running.
In every steep place where we were tipped out, life was flowing. Staying in
love the night shone for us as the day; there were our treasures. For as pearls
are found inside oysters, so is light found inside darkness: where we didn’t
say we knew, we saw.
It was through our weakness we grew in strength; through brokenness we
found love, deep and unfathomable. There the ever increasing passion to
communicate what was seen in the mirror lake of tears. Through the tunnel, then
the reflecting back of the light all upside down, and inside out! For the light
was as darkness to us, all incomprehensible: it was opposite to the way of the
world!
But, in all this back-to-front living – the losing to find – we were helped.
Behind the scenes deep in our innermost being things are happening there
opening us up . . . which, if we are courageous enough, will eventually emerge,
bringing the reward of an extraordinary and entirely individual, unimagined
joy!
'All
really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are
first proposed.’ - Alfred
North Whitehead
‘People
are open to new ideas...as long as they are identical to the old ones.’ -
Ancient Chinese Proverb
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