April 24, 2020

The poetic spirit can lift us beyond both our childlike self-preoccupied, over-personalization and our mature adult rational interpretation of events, to another, transcendent reality.  Poetic magical moments become mystical moments.  When you have trouble settliing  in meditation, reading spiritual poetry as a kind of warmup exercise is one way to move past resistance and blocks.

Here, Mary Oliver has yet  another view of rain. (than yesterday's post)

https://www.best-poems.net/mary_oliver/last_night_the_rain_spoke_to_me.html