Category: Meditations

St. Patrick is fabled to have driven the snakes out of Ireland. Which is more heroic if you don’t like snakes than if you are a snake.

What have you driven from your life? Has it helped or hindered you?

Some ambitious architects have created buildings with gilded domes, but the sunrise coats the entire landscape in gold, a prospect no human artist could even conceive of managing.

What has been given to you that is utterly beyond your power to create for yourself?

For a river rafter or kayaker, white water is the dangerous part of the river, the place that threatens to throw them overboard to hazards of bone-breaking rocks and even drowning. The white water, of course, is the whole reason they go out on the river to begin with.

What challenge is enlivening your life?

Imagine charging full speed ahead, wind in your face, legs moving as fast as they possibly can simply for the sheer joy of running, for the delight of freedom and boundless  space. Has your tail begun to wag?

What do you do for the exuberant delight of the activity itself

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.” ― Jim Morrison

When in your life have you experienced a revolution of personal freedom?