Speaking of Spirit

In many traditions around the world, we are taught to be in the moment, to "be" now.  However, as history has shown us (and is still showing us) if we fail to remember the past, the future is doomed to repeat old patterns. Only by remembering what was can we find the secret door to a stronger, healthier, safer and more abundant tomorrow.  But, how can we do that, while being in the moment? A conundrum for sure! To start, we need a different perspective. Time is not linear as most people imagine, nor is it circular.  Rather, time is spiraling. By changing that perspective, we no longer see ourselves wandering along a long, straight, infinite road to and from nowhere.  Alternately, we no long see ourselves traveling in circles that never end - chasing our tails like the Ouroboros. Instead, we realize that we are traveling a spiral that can take us higher or lower depending on our perspective.  Therefore, the perspective we want to take is one of awareness ...

Panoramic Prospective  Heart sight is the wide-angle lens  that encompasses Life's landscapes.  Opened wide, one sees clearly  the vastness of possibility and hope.  © 2019 Linda M. Rhinehart Neas This poem is the result of a prompt for the April Poetry Month Poem-A-Day Challenge in Poetic Asides . After posting and reading it, the thought came for using the metaphor of a camera as a means to view life expanded, much like the perspective through the view finder when going from micro to macro. Love is the wide-angled lens of Life. Other lenses add to how we see the world. Compassion is the deep-focus lens and kindness is a filter used to sharpen the view.  The Columbia Film Language Glossary states, "Deep focus is a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously. A deep-f...