I was very moved by this writing, Renee. It continues to amaze me how we are gripped by mythologies that govern how we experience life. I immediately realized that in Judaism there is less recognition of the Fall, of a vertical descent, and more of an emphasis on fragmentation as the original energy of Creation. This essential diaspora results in a powerful magnetic force that seeks to call the fragments back together and motivates all connection, all love.....but it's not a "falling in love."
Dear Susie, If I ever complete the manuscript I’m drafting at present, I have been imagining for a while writing next about “how we are gripped by [the mythology of the Fall and how it] governs how we experience life.” I have also considered offering an online convivium on this very reflection. Perhaps, you and I could correspond more and/or Zoom conversation about what you share here about the emphasis on fragmentation as the original energy of Creation in Judaism, the diaspora < > magnetic force that seeks to call the fragments back together and motivates all connection, all love.” Beauty. Yes. Thank you for sharing. Ever grateful.
I’d love to connect with you on Zoom. Leaving on Wednesday for the winter in California and have a lot of availability during the next months except for the period January 10-24 (Cabo!). Why don’t you suggest a date?
Dear Renée. Yet again you bring me close to tears with the level of depth and understanding you express, written most elegantly on “Falling and the Gravity of Desire”. With profound kindness—beneficence—you approach your premise, with tender descriptions of each player and their part, weaving them in, through, around, upon the pure love of Grace. You can’t go wrong with grace. Thou art a treasure, beloved.
Dear Becky, Thank you. Your words are grace. I receive them this way, tender touches of a merciful heart. “You can’t go wrong with grace. Thou [too] art a treasure, beloved.”
Oh, Renée! This is gorgeous. I’m smiling the whole time because I just wrote about this very same thing yesterday in considering St Francis’ prayer, the line about love. Gravity, eros, attraction and the reciprocity longing - yes!
Thank you for these beautiful words that have deepened my appreciation for grace and gravity even more. 🤍💚
Dear Julie, Thank you for reading and sharing. For the past few weeks, I have been preparing inwardly for our in-person gathering last week/weekend, and so, I’ve largely been absent from Substack, all the while so looking forward to immersing myself afterwards like a teabag in the waters of your line-by-line reflections on St. Francis’ prayer. I suspect the experience will be more stirring reading post-by-post as one meditation, and I so look forward. You’ll “see” me there in comments.
*To anyone reading these comments, do follow Julie’s link and trace back to the first of these line-by-line reflections on St. Francis’ prayer. I dipped my toe in a week or so ago and have put these reads top of list.*
Those reflections from Jenna, Kimberly, and Ed pair well with your stunning photographs and poetic, open perceptions. I think I missed this post the first time around, so I'm glad to have the chance to see it again.
The relationship between gravity and grace is something to ponder. Thank you for the Simone Weil reference to track down, and for your nudge, as ever, toward contemplative truth.
Dear Tara, Thank you. I often find tremendous inspiration in these reflections in Comments and appreciate the resonance between them, how they frequently weave a post all their own. I imagine this is so for you, too, in your writing.
So lovely to read. So rich to comtemplate. Your words give form and music to what in Esoteric study is the energy of the Second Ray--one of the fundamental energies of creation. It is the Ray of Attraction, the energy that brings things together for the expansion of the universe and the creation and evolution of new things. It's name is also Love. TY, Renee.
Dear Brenda, Thank you for sharing these reflections from Esoteric study, so exquisitely timed. In our in-person gathering last week/weekend, we touched on gravity in a manner so similar to what you have shared here as to be uncanny and moved into a practice that, I believe it is safe to say, moved each of us to the soul depths of Love.
“the energy that brings things together for the expansion of the universe and the creation and evolution of new things. Its name is also Love.” Deep bow.
So gorgeous Renée. I'm inclined to share this with my aging mom, as she continues to fall and fall again, her body no longer balanced in space, but perhaps the earth calling her home. It's a treasure to see how our musings here plant seeds in you, falling toward your own center of gravity, until they flourish into something new.
Dear Kimberly, I imagine with such tenderness your mom falling, how unsettling it must be to be upright and then not, again and again. An image of the Earth’s longing for us may soften the blow, maybe even give the feeling deep down in the bones that the universe is a communion process, that all is drawn to touch, and the attraction itself is imbued with Love. Still, it hurts to fall.
I was very moved by this writing, Renee. It continues to amaze me how we are gripped by mythologies that govern how we experience life. I immediately realized that in Judaism there is less recognition of the Fall, of a vertical descent, and more of an emphasis on fragmentation as the original energy of Creation. This essential diaspora results in a powerful magnetic force that seeks to call the fragments back together and motivates all connection, all love.....but it's not a "falling in love."
Dear Susie, If I ever complete the manuscript I’m drafting at present, I have been imagining for a while writing next about “how we are gripped by [the mythology of the Fall and how it] governs how we experience life.” I have also considered offering an online convivium on this very reflection. Perhaps, you and I could correspond more and/or Zoom conversation about what you share here about the emphasis on fragmentation as the original energy of Creation in Judaism, the diaspora < > magnetic force that seeks to call the fragments back together and motivates all connection, all love.” Beauty. Yes. Thank you for sharing. Ever grateful.
I’d love to connect with you on Zoom. Leaving on Wednesday for the winter in California and have a lot of availability during the next months except for the period January 10-24 (Cabo!). Why don’t you suggest a date?
Wonderful, Susie. I'll DM you.
Dear Renée. Yet again you bring me close to tears with the level of depth and understanding you express, written most elegantly on “Falling and the Gravity of Desire”. With profound kindness—beneficence—you approach your premise, with tender descriptions of each player and their part, weaving them in, through, around, upon the pure love of Grace. You can’t go wrong with grace. Thou art a treasure, beloved.
Dear Becky, Thank you. Your words are grace. I receive them this way, tender touches of a merciful heart. “You can’t go wrong with grace. Thou [too] art a treasure, beloved.”
Oh, Renée! This is gorgeous. I’m smiling the whole time because I just wrote about this very same thing yesterday in considering St Francis’ prayer, the line about love. Gravity, eros, attraction and the reciprocity longing - yes!
Thank you for these beautiful words that have deepened my appreciation for grace and gravity even more. 🤍💚
https://open.substack.com/pub/juliegabrielli/p/an-ecstatic-love-for-the-world?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Dear Julie, Thank you for reading and sharing. For the past few weeks, I have been preparing inwardly for our in-person gathering last week/weekend, and so, I’ve largely been absent from Substack, all the while so looking forward to immersing myself afterwards like a teabag in the waters of your line-by-line reflections on St. Francis’ prayer. I suspect the experience will be more stirring reading post-by-post as one meditation, and I so look forward. You’ll “see” me there in comments.
*To anyone reading these comments, do follow Julie’s link and trace back to the first of these line-by-line reflections on St. Francis’ prayer. I dipped my toe in a week or so ago and have put these reads top of list.*
https://open.substack.com/pub/juliegabrielli/p/an-ecstatic-love-for-the-world?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Those reflections from Jenna, Kimberly, and Ed pair well with your stunning photographs and poetic, open perceptions. I think I missed this post the first time around, so I'm glad to have the chance to see it again.
The relationship between gravity and grace is something to ponder. Thank you for the Simone Weil reference to track down, and for your nudge, as ever, toward contemplative truth.
Dear Tara, Thank you. I often find tremendous inspiration in these reflections in Comments and appreciate the resonance between them, how they frequently weave a post all their own. I imagine this is so for you, too, in your writing.
You inspire, hear, and harvest those resonances particularly well. ❤️
So lovely to read. So rich to comtemplate. Your words give form and music to what in Esoteric study is the energy of the Second Ray--one of the fundamental energies of creation. It is the Ray of Attraction, the energy that brings things together for the expansion of the universe and the creation and evolution of new things. It's name is also Love. TY, Renee.
Dear Brenda, Thank you for sharing these reflections from Esoteric study, so exquisitely timed. In our in-person gathering last week/weekend, we touched on gravity in a manner so similar to what you have shared here as to be uncanny and moved into a practice that, I believe it is safe to say, moved each of us to the soul depths of Love.
“the energy that brings things together for the expansion of the universe and the creation and evolution of new things. Its name is also Love.” Deep bow.
So gorgeous Renée. I'm inclined to share this with my aging mom, as she continues to fall and fall again, her body no longer balanced in space, but perhaps the earth calling her home. It's a treasure to see how our musings here plant seeds in you, falling toward your own center of gravity, until they flourish into something new.
Dear Kimberly, I imagine with such tenderness your mom falling, how unsettling it must be to be upright and then not, again and again. An image of the Earth’s longing for us may soften the blow, maybe even give the feeling deep down in the bones that the universe is a communion process, that all is drawn to touch, and the attraction itself is imbued with Love. Still, it hurts to fall.
May we all fall with grace to grace. 🙏🏻✨