i am dance

i am a dance

feet in flight

skipping upon the air

tickling the floors

toes sashaying in twists

i am a bundle of pirouettes

of movements and leaps

framing a world of play

composing fun

prancing about in tights

i am a dance

and all of me is war and joy

is slave and free

is sad and mad

and all manner of wit

holding sway within

i am a dance

a choreographic swell

releases me

*If you are silent, be silent out of love; if you speak, speak out of love.

  -St.Augustine

*Thoughts of Alan Jones:

  -Morton Kelsey wisely points out that Jung was far more concerned with helping people approach the numinous than with concentrating on their neurosis.  Real therapy lies in the approach to mystery. Jung believed that insofar as one is in touch with the truly numinous, the more likely one is to be released from the curse of pathology.

  -We need to be able to see, at one and the same time, the glory to which we are called and the distance we have fallen from the glory.  It is the task of the artist to help us develop that "double vision".

  -The concern of both psychoanalysis and the desert tradition is precisely "clear-sighted vision and critical contemplation" of what life has to offer.  This way of believing is a way of looking at the world. oneself, and others critically and compassionately.  It makes no easy promises.  It insists on an apparently bleak reality because it takes time to develop double vision.  We have to take time to look at the side of things that we have taken a greet deal of trouble to avoid.