Life’s Shadowy Halls
The being who arranges your destiny – the circumstances and conditions of life – is alive inside you. For the most part we’re unaware of this and live our lives as if things just happen. To some extent we’re just wanderers, moving through life’s shadowy halls, hearing footsteps and jumping round to see if love has arrived yet. Love is the Arranger of life, and the force which brings change and growth. I look for it, in its various forms, or else experience myself as a ghost, haunting my own house alone.
But at a certain point the Arranger moves in – sees with my eyes and acts with my intent. That is the point at which the self or spirit – the being inside – takes control of its own destiny. Then it is able to ask the loved one – the soul or natural self – to step forth from the pillars where it has shaded its dreams and trembled.
Yet what the inner self has arranged needs limbs and strength to carry out its intentions, just as the sun, with dashes of light and color, brings brilliance to the world’s breadth and length. The loved one, as a glowing image, fills the limbs with strength and allows what has been arranged, in secret night, to spread out in the light of day.
Dream
I’ve wondered in my life’s shadowy halls
hearing footsteps and jumping round to see
if you’d arrived yet, from Love’s Arranger,
or if I must haunt my own house alone.
Now it seems the Arranger has moved in,
sees with my eyes, acts with my intent,
and asks you to step forth from those pillars
where you have shaded your dreams and trembled.
Arranged
But what I have arranged is still undone
and needs to find its limbs, its natural strength,
to color all my images, as sun
will dash the world in brilliant breadth and length.
You are the glowing image of my sight,
you fill my limbs with strength to act anew,
and what I have arranged in secret night
will spread out in the light of day through you.
Best wishes, today,
Landar
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conor shields
on March 30th, 2011
Yes – there are so many false paths in life – to narrow it down to the right one seems almost impossible
raina
on March 30th, 2011
If I can add to that – I’d say people are very fond of their different paths, including the false ones. It sounds patronizing to say any path is false but you can’t help thinking it. Sometimes I don’t know if we’re too tolerant or not tolerant enough.