“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung
Waiting I no longer seek myself as I did in those familiar places of tired satisfaction and now wholly abandoned to an indifference to the paths and patterns that brought me to this once hallowed mask of imagined meaning made in endless passionate clinging to the squawking of gulls, until I floated off into a spaciousness that knows no bounds, an inner sanctum of patient waiting. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Tom Petty said, “Waiting is the hardest part”.
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I think he’s right, many thanks for that.
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Paul, beautiful poem. I hate waiting! But being in inspiring, peaceful surroundings leads to introspection and reflection. I don’t feel like I am waiting at all. 🙂 Lovely photo. All the best! Cheryl
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I’d agree, I feel much more reflective in natural spaces, many thanks Cheryl, really appreciate your thoughts.
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Lovely poem, Paul. I’m feeling quite dead inside at the moment so the inner sanctum is a place I go to feel nothing.
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O, I wish I could lift you out of it, but the sanctum is solace I’m sure.
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I hope I learn to be patient with myself.
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No easy thing I’ve discovered, but it’s worth the effort for sure.
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A wonderful reverie.
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Thank you VJ – I trust you are healing well?
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I am! Welcome, Paul
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Great news indeed.
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Patience is one of the treasured “Fruits of the Spirit”. 🌟✨💫
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Yes, and the least engaged I feel in the current time.
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The lines “passionate clinging to the /squawking of gulls” really resonated with me. They remind me of a time a psychiatrist told me not to listen to monkey chatter.
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Ah yes, the monkey mind, ever discoursing, and no quiet or respite, exhausting, I know it well.
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OMG! Yes waiting is the hardest part in life, even you know the result. Michael
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Yes even though we know, it sure is agonising. Thank you Michael.
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:-))
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very reflective beautiful poem
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Thank you Lyn.
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