ready to rise?

i.

i am a mountain ready to rise

pushing 'gainst the crust o'er my life

in a drive to move beyond the borders

of fears, doubts and laws

holding bound the spirit inside

i want to grow

ii.

so, why mountain, won't you rise

push your head above the terrain

break the crust encasing your heart?

push through liberated

with the might of your heart

shov'ling back the words locking you down

Thoughts of Alan Jones:

  -While we do much of what we have to do on our own, companionship is essential if we are not to lose our way.

  -The opportunity for a conversion is brief, and our lives are littered with missed opportunities.

  -From time to time, everyone needs someone to play the role of "analyst" or "desert father or mother."  It is not a role that many of us are for on a long-term basis, but there are moments when we can play that part for someone else.  Each of us needs someone to behave towards us in such a way that our neuroses are not allowed to take over and dominate the relationship.  We do not always appreciate such people, but they serve, at particular moments of revelation, to move us from the neurotic to the numinous.

  -It takes practice to spot angelic presences.  But practice alone is not enough, unless one can practice being taken by surprise.