Certain thoughts bring pressure
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Yesterday I walked this way
Seeking peace
The pleasant place
Place of comfort
And of grace
Connecting to
All there is
How to know
The work that fits
Calling forth
Your greatest whit
Not the work
That passes time
Performed for duty
Shallow mind
But that which touches
Deep inside
Engaging will and
Heart and pride
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Yet pressure is a concrete thing
The potter using it to bring
Beauty to a shapeless thing
The bumps that seek to have their way
Are pressured till they go away
Yet too much pressure brings a break
The piece is lost – what is at stake
Paradox it comes along
Resisting pressure makes you strong
Can have the opposite effect
Break one down and bring regret
As with everything in life
Achieve a balance
Walk Occam’s knife
Enquire of your deepest parts
To yield . . . stand firm. . .
What’s in your heart?
©12/28/07, Glenn Mehltretter
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I find this interesting...when you pull away the curtains, it contains either or...when you pull the next layer back, what you discover is that this is a conversation between two "entities".
I often refer to them as the lieutenant and the general, you can see what i mean by that by going to www.leadu.com/mbti and clicking on watch video...
In this "verse" we experience the small world that the lieutenant must manage daily, the world of requirements--the constant din of noise calling for attention.
We also begin to get a sense of another "party" to the conversation, a much bigger world, and not necessarily a world of either/or, although until the "entities" become disembbedded in themselves--will they find a way to navigate the noise of the world, and the noise of the world about the world...
Jung himself was an INTJ, and most likely was, through his ability, to discover his own "conversation" about the conversation in the end, but my sense is, it troubled him and he gave attention to this dichotomy of spirit, and spirits of spirits, but never actually found a way to connect with his own conversation in a way that allowed him to form the third view...
There is a unique "opening" here presented in the deliberate practice you've begun to capture the "words" or verses of these conversations...in the end, will you "practice" the third view...or realize it, like God--is among you....
Now, I don't want to appear disrespectful, or blasphemous in any way, but it could be that the noise of the conversation is blocking God from joining in...
just a thought
mike
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