Double Sunrise, Gift from the Sea

Thursday morning…yes I am up in Lac du Flambeau WI, but I brought my book along…I've got some time in the morning since I woke up so early, to the sounds of the Loons, Eagles and Crows. (no completes, in fact a welcoming sound)

So on with the next chapter….Double Sunrise

A gift, freely giving freely taken, suspended on the still point of here and now.

Anne shares about relationships and how pure the first part of any relationship is so pure. Between husband and wife, mother and child etc.

It is pure and simple like the artist’s vision before he has to discipline it into form, or like the flower of love before it has ripened to the firm but heavy fruit of responsibility. Every relationship seems simple at its start.

Anne shares the perfect of this unity…a moment of here and now where nothing has entered or nothing has left. Then change happens, because that is inevitable. Anne share that the deeper relationships like marriage where changing patterns are clearly seen and hardest to maintain. Thinking that if it doesn't stay in the perfect state all is failed. One might resent any change, even though one knows that transformation is natural and part of the process of life and its evolution.  

Moving to another stage of growth, hesitation might be present, but welcome it as the season change.

As Anne shares…a natural course seems to happen…as husband and wife or two in love, we fall in to our roles…and the sense of missing out on that early perfect pure love becomes something we long to get back.  Women on the other hand seem to allow that ability to reconnect with it if they experience the birth of a child, that recurring moment of the new relationship present, here and now.  If one is not careful though this is also when the longing can become such a hunger it could have members in the relationship stray.

Anne asks can one be fed by another relationship, because it is in the early stage. I think what I’m gathering by this is that reaching out and taking something to fulfill a need to regain a sense of this intimate connection with others and not fully understanding what this inner connection is all about is like chase something one cannot have.  Grabbing from the outside to fill a void on the inside. Anne asks, Can one actually find oneself in someone else? In someone else love? Or even in a mirror someone holds up for you?  Anne shares, I believe that true identity is found, as Eckhart once said, by “going into one’s own ground and knowing oneself”

Can it be found by losing oneself?   In creative works, yes we each need something that we can call our own, a place to refine our strength, of our neglected pure relationship to ourselves first.

From my own personal experience some relationships do seem to fade out but is there hope for others? The ones that do have signs of growth, it is not lost but merely buried under the impedimenta of life. The core is still there and needs only to be uncovered and reaffirmed.

Re-connection to ourselves first might be a good starting point, possible a time away as Anne share how important it is to give yours solitude and simplicity.  And also for a couples or relationships that have many distraction, family, work to get away together alone. From mine understanding it’s not about going back but it’s about taking the time to unclog the path to have a moment again when each is as purely important to each other as that first pure relationship of connection. Creating a new point of continuous growth, bonding again.

We all wished to be loved alone. It is when we desire to continuity of being loved alone that we go wrong. I hate to say it but it sounds like chasing a drug of sick love…

For love moments there is no one and only….there is just one-and only moments.

Gift here is that we can create new moments and be present with the here and now they are refreshing and rewarding. This is intimacy.

All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms.

So I’m away from my family now though with a creative family of sorts I will take all these find words and carry them close to my heart today and allow them to ring true and be carried further throughout the rest of this week and home with me.