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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Heart, Broken…yet made for This alone. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
When we can feel the heart break, it means we are alive ... and strong enough to mend it with the next breath, if we decide so. ((((Eric))))  Margherita |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Eric, This hurts to read. Alison |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hi Ericc, I share your poem and the comment of Margherita... regards yann |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Heart, Broken...making room for more |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
sending you hugs Ericc... I do so love reading your thoughts... love RDB Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight......... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Wishing you healing sunshine on your shoulders. - Owl |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Thanks for the replies everyone. There's a Zen saying - it's the space within a vase that allows flowers to be placed there. A teacher of mine once held a silver dollar in his hand and asked me to take it from his tightened fist. Of course I could not - and then he broke his fist open and asked me to try again. Then I understood. Now...at this stage of my life I am beginning to (really) Know what he was trying to show me. Without spaciousness - we have nothing to give and nothing to receive. Everything breaks - but clinging to broken pieces only brings suffering. It's impossible to grasp space - it only allows. Love, Eric [This message has been edited by Ericc (07-20-2008 06:33 PM).] |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
It's impossible to grasp space - it only allows. Thank you, dear Eric, for this addition. It is illuminating, though it is not an easily comprehensible concept. Margherita |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
On another note - it's impossible to be grasped by space. We can only let go and become more in our own personal lessening. Spiritual healer Joseph Goldsmith called our lifetime a "parenthese in eternity". And once the heart is broken from it's "need" (only what we think it needs)the parenthese opens to eternity during this very moment. Would any one of us (truly) trade an old love that left us semmingly "broken" for this moment earased? Maybe? But it's that very heartbreak that creates the spaceiousness that allows us to love again, more fully, deeper and with a hope that reaches past the parentheses onto eternity itself. |
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