VJs Weekly Challenge – Wild Card
VJ has challenged us to respond to the words of the Dalai Lama “The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.” Dalai Lama
Image: The work of Catherine Nelson and part of an extensive series called Other Worlds, see more at http://www.catherinenelson.com
“There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.” Ken Wilbur
Open Myself
The telephone booth beckons,
my hearts knows its mantra,
kenosis arrives in the moment
but only if I let it be so,
for I have to assent
to take off my high ground,
become the anti-hero,
open myself to the
transpersonal real,
singing back to earth
its own love song as if it
were my very own.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: Kenosis (κενωσις) is a Greek word meaning to empty one’s self, used formally in relation to the theological and philosophical understanding of the incarnation.
Paul, pvcann.com
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Beautiful words.
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I love that it takes place in a phone booth – like an inverted superman.
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I really like your comparison to an inverted superman, V.J.!
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🙂
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Lol, yes, I couldn’t leave that alone.
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So good.
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Thank you VJ
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🥰
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🙂
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You have spoken for me with this beautiful poem
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That is so nice to know.
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Paul, this is an expertly crafted piece. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Thank you so much for sharing that Jess, means a lot.
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A very beautiful poem, Paul.
Love, love singing back to earth…
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Yes, I have that sense of communion with nature that I’m always trying to personify. I think most of us have some sense of that.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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🙂 thank you Chuck
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So true, and wonderful pennned around Dalai Lama’s quote, Paul! Best wishs, Michael
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Wonderful quote from Dalai Lama and fits your poem and some positive ’emptying’ of our thought driven lives.
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Thank you very much for sharing that.
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🙂
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Thank you VJ
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