Rhys Catalonia

About Me

Once more my deeper life goes on with more strength,
as if the banks through which it moves had widened out.
Trees and stones seem more like me each day,
and the paintings I see seem more seen into:
with my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven out of the oak,
and in the ponds broken off from the blue sky
my feeling sinks, as though standing on fishes.

                                                ---  Rilke

With the creation of I+L it appears my evolutionary growth with Integral Practice finds a new frontier.  I'm glad to be here sharing it with you. I don't yet know what I'll do with this new found place, or my little patch of blogged dirt in it.  I certainly plan to share my thoughts, ideas and experiences in applying an AQAL lens to the myriad things swirling around me (with varying degrees of success, I might add).  I suppose I can share some writings that I feel are "tapping on the turquoise", like the Rilke quote above, one of my favorites.  And I may be so immodest as to share some of my own. Like some of you, I may transition my writing journal to this on-line forum, although it doesn't yet feel organic enough to quite suit my tastes. Or maybe it's just fear of intimacy. Sharing one's own writings is a deeply personal thing, subject to many hazards. One can be lured by the false bouyancy of narcissistic egoism or crushed beneath the weight of lowered self-esteem.  In other words, it creates an opportunity to strengthen, to grow and to practice being centered....being more integral.

So let's shove off, and see where this tiny boat leads us.  I already feel the waves rocking against the lapstrake and the current carrying me downstream.

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