Life’s Two Fiery Questions!
May it be so?
May it be so
That we may know the waters of life
And the tree of life
are One
That those waters flow in our veins
Even as that tree is rooted in our souls
And that the men and women and children of the earth
Are one people
One family
Brothers and sisters
All
All creation
A mirror
For looking within
A window
For looking without
A portal
For entering
Spirit
For celebrating
Flesh
The two dancing partners
Of duality
Of Oneness
Where all is fodder
For learning
A world transforming
Of no-waste.
In such a world,
There are only two questions:
“What shall I feed myself, today:
Fear? or Love?”
And the second question is this:
“What shall I make of myself,
As a sacrifice of flesh and spirit,
With which to feed the world?”
Lay these two questions gently,
Carefully,
Like two sacred aspen logs,
Upon the heart fire of your soul.
For with our answer,
We chose the Nature of the Fire
that will live in the hearth of our heart,
that will consume our lives,
that we will serve.
The choices are but two
though the blend of these we each create
is the art of our living:
Follow the Path of Joy
And stoke the Fires of Renewal and Re-Creation;
Follow the Way of Fear — of Insatiable Hunger,
The Way of Externalized Authority,
And the Fires of Armageddon
Will haunt you all the way
into your grave.
November 26, 2007 at 10:31 pm
[...] Here is a link to what I consider to be Life’s Two Fiery Questions! [...]
December 8, 2007 at 6:26 pm
[...] right glad for our innate wild resiliency! I would not be here without it; and I’m betting our future is sure enough gonna require it [...]
December 19, 2007 at 2:21 am
Hi Larry,
I’m glad I know you. Thanks for the 2 fiery questions. I’d like to connect via email. Dinner on Sunday was enchanting and fulfilling. I’m hoping we’ll do more of that. -e-
December 21, 2007 at 11:11 am
[...] OK, now I admit I’m thinking of an earlier post on this blog and what I think of as Life’s Two Fiery Questions: [...]
May 13, 2008 at 11:07 pm
[...] David Brooks may declare that he is not going to take sides, but in truth we each do—daily. We do so through our willingness to be loyal to the deep and wild joy of our own wholeness, or not. Life invites forth this loyalty from us; affirming it requires the willingness to be loyal to the wildness of our own authenticity. And daily, Life goes on asking of us Two Fiery Questions: [...]
June 12, 2008 at 8:51 pm
[...] is a belief I seem to carry, though I avow little use for beliefs in general. The belief is this: in the perception and experience of beauty there lies a path of thrive-ability. And in today’s world, the choices as to the beliefs and perceptions I will feed myself [...]
October 27, 2008 at 3:42 pm
[...] I for one am confident of the wild collective consciousness, the wild intelligence and wisdom that live within us, that is available to us, that flows in an unbroken linage from the birthing of the cosmos into me and into you. I am also confident that if we but risk opening ourselves to deep listening, if we but open ourselves to the wild resiliency of this heritage, we can and will create a world of our conscious desires rather than the shadow world of our unconscious fearing. [...]
February 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm
[...] Below is an excerpt from a view I suspect is on the prophetic side, from a self-described “optimistic” perspective. And for the fear such scenario worldviews might engender in us, I offer this as perspective and antidote: Life’s Two Fiery Questions. [...]