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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 7:28:51 GMT -5
Hiraeth is a Welsh word that is somewhat difficult to describe in English, for the reason that there is no single English word that expresses all that it does. Some words often used to try to explain it are homesickness, yearning, and longing.
– the link with the long-forgotten past, the language of the soul, the call from the inner self. Half forgotten – fraction remembered. It speaks from the rocks, from the earth, from the trees and in the waves. It’s always there.
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Post by zendancer on Oct 4, 2018 8:17:57 GMT -5
Hiraeth is a Welsh word that is somewhat difficult to describe in English, for the reason that there is no single English word that expresses all that it does. Some words often used to try to explain it are homesickness, yearning, and longing. – the link with the long-forgotten past, the language of the soul, the call from the inner self. Half forgotten – fraction remembered. It speaks from the rocks, from the earth, from the trees and in the waves. It’s always there. The Japanese language has a word, "yugen," that may be similar in meaning--a sense of the infinite within but beyond the transient. It points to the feeling one has when standing alone by a lake in the evening and hearing a distant bird cry, or entering a wedding reception hall after everyone has departed (an hour before there was music and laughter, etc. but now there is only silence and emptiness). Watts once wrote a poignant essay about this word. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 9:09:35 GMT -5
The Japanese language has a word, "yugen," that may be similar in meaning--a sense of the infinite within but beyond the transient. It points to the feeling one has when standing alone by a lake in the evening and hearing a distant bird cry, or entering a wedding reception hall after everyone has departed (an hour before there was music and laughter, etc. but now there is only silence and emptiness). Watts once wrote a poignant essay about this word. I was unaware of either word before this morning, but that recognition to which they point to I've experienced many times. That timeless emptiness can even be recognized during the whirlwind of the party - but the mind needs to be very still. |
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Post by zendancer on Oct 4, 2018 9:23:47 GMT -5
The Japanese language has a word, "yugen," that may be similar in meaning--a sense of the infinite within but beyond the transient. It points to the feeling one has when standing alone by a lake in the evening and hearing a distant bird cry, or entering a wedding reception hall after everyone has departed (an hour before there was music and laughter, etc. but now there is only silence and emptiness). Watts once wrote a poignant essay about this word. I was unaware of either word before this morning, but that recognition to which they point to I've experienced many times. That timeless emptiness can even be recognized during the whirlwind of the party - but the mind needs to be very still. You can google "most beautiful speech of alan watts--yugen: the mystery or change" and get a sense of it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 7:41:17 GMT -5
Talks from Yarrow
"Welcome Oneness; do not strive to keep separate.
We are not less real nor lessened in any way. Of course it is strange at first. You are afraid you will miss the delight and joy of us, but that too is within. Look at it this way: how can Oneness exist if you reach out of yourself for it? You are simply putting a limitation on yourself, expecting yourself to be what you already know. Have we not always told you of the great potentials human have? Accept Oneness and rejoice. Bring Oneness and communion with all things into your life. Grow. It is a natural growth at this time.
You think you will miss the sense of massed beauty and joy of our world? Oh, perverse human, that too is within. Feel it, feel it vibrating within, closer than breathing. There is nothing lacking. If God who is All, is within, can you exclude us? Be sensible."
To Hear the Angels Sing ~ Dorothy Maclean.
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Post by amit on Jun 22, 2020 4:35:05 GMT -5
I cannot utter a single word unless you speak.
A prayer.
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Post by Reefs on Jun 25, 2020 6:03:00 GMT -5
Original Face
“This face is a dog’s snout sniffing for garbage…
This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea…
This face is flavored fruit ready for eating…”.
- Walt Whitman
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