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There Is A Cosmos

I enjoyed the walk yesterday. Ault Park in Cincinnati. With Quanita. A break in the day to be in sunshine. With flowers. Broader vistas.

Thanks to the park. To the Iris. To Carl Jung for this reference above about order and disorder in the cosmos. To Michael Meade for sharing such cosmic wonders.

There is a teaching that I continue to offer. And continue to explore within myself. In short it is the relationship between Now and the Longer Arc. Between Inner and Outer. Quanita likes to add the dimensions of Individual and Communal.

Welcoming the sunshine to mix all of that together yesterday, it leaves me with attractive statements to grow in my gardens of intuitive wonder and clarity.

In every Now, there is a cosmos.
In every Longer Arc there is a cosmos.
In every Inner being, there is a cosmos.
In every Outer experience there is a cosmos.

And in all of that, with its appearance of chaos, be it at the scale of iris garden or cosmos of billions of stars in billions of galaxies, grows secret order.

That is an awareness that excites my belly. Lifts my eyes. Softens my heart. Like the walk at Ault Park yesterday. And the sunshine.

One Reply to “There Is A Cosmos”

  1. “leaves me with attractive statements to grow in my gardens of intuitive wonder and clarity.”

    so much loveliness …

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