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Flirting with Insantity poem

Posted May 20th, 2009 by jseav19 in Shadow Integration

 Oh insanity, friend of my growth. 
I pull back from my contact with you. 
I decide not to loose myself in your powerful freedom, adventure, and power. 
I pull back from you, my friend. 
I settle back into this life of my familiarities, my duldrum, my stability. 
Yet I keep you in sight. 
I don't pull back so far that I can't see you. 
I remain aware of your location in my consciousness and in my behavior. 
As I settle into the stability of my consciousness, I integrate the lessons you taught me as we danced together. 
As I give you your space, I can see that you begin to drift away from me, so I walk toward you, pushing myself and my environment into stress and new yoga poses of behavior, thoughts, and feelings. 
I perhaps don't get so close as I was this last time we danced but I don't let you get so far away either, as I have come to know you and love you too. 
As I get close to you, I make more discoveries, some of them I like and some of them frighten me. 
And as I pull back from you I make use of these discoveries to serve my world.

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awesome

Posted May 20th, 2009 by chris emerson

 thanks

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Flirting with Insantity poem

Posted May 22nd, 2009 by Ambo Suno

Yes, I like this poem and it's understandability. The poem seems to make sane that which feels and frightens one as insane. Questions arise about what this person is saying along the way - what are the larger stories to which he speaks quickly.  He, you, doesn't thrust the entire cacophony of disorganization into my ears at once that overly frightens me or esthetically makes me turn away. In the space that the poem allows in me, I wonder what is the location in which the insanity resides? And, I wonder whether that is correctly perceived, as a location? This poem has invited me in, as Robert Kegan refers, to wonder at and wonder about. Thanks for presenting this poetic commentary on an important dance. 

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