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Radiant Poetry

The being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

Some momentary awareness comes

As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows

Who violently sweep your house

Empty of its furniture.

Still treat each guest honorably –

He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent

As a guide from beyond.

Rumi

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RADIANT SONG

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

And in my hour of darkness , she is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree

There will be an answer, let it be

For though they may be parted there is 

Still a chance that they may see

There will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be, yeah

There will be an answer, let it be

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me

Shine on til tomorrow, let it be

I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me,

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be

There will be answer, let it be, let it be

Whispered words of wisdom, let it be

"Let It Be"

Lennon/McCartney

Listen to the Beatles 

Sing the Song on

Let It Be  

"Creative Expression:

The Downhill Phase"

Over Christmas time I lived a sort of paradoxical incident - a sort of a riddle.  I was in a car accident and I was not in a car accident.

The car’s handbrake slipped and the car went careering  in reverse down the hill. Our two dogs were in the car at the time. The car eventually came to a stop about twenty meters at the bottom of the incline.  No one was hurt but people were in shock. One other car was scratched and our car sustained a broken wing mirror. The dogs seemed completely unperturbed by this adventure.

As a storyteller I am a metaphor hunter. This means I look for the invitations from beyond within my day-to-day life experiences.  This is important when life appears to be throwing what can easily be viewed as negative situations.

There are no such things as accidents.  They are metaphors for what is happening in your and my life.  What then can I learn from this experience? In dreams and in life the car is often a representation of how we see ourselves.  It is also a representation of our creative energy.

For this storyteller this accident is a statement of what happens when you don’t hold on so tight to that which is controlled. When you hold on tightly to your emotional and creative life force it will one day not be able to hold on. Life experience will ratchet up the tension and the hold you have on your emotional expressiveness and creative energy will break. You will be forced to let go.

The result will then be anything but creative. I believe that life invites us to pay attention to such minor accidents.  In this way we make the necessary changes and we avoid more major accidents.

The car careering down the hill in reverse in a small Irish town could have been anything but a minor accident. As it happened it was, in fact, a minor or maybe even a major miracle.

The likelihood of only one other car being scratched is not very high.  It was as if angels had driven the car down to where it finally came to rest. You could take this accident and see it metaphorically for your life situation. What would it tell you?

My own interpretation is this.

You have been holding on too tight to your creative energetic expression.  You need to let go the hold you have on it.  This may feel like you are going backwards.  There might be a few scratches on the surface of the ego but you will be guided to a safe place where you will find rest.  The representations of unconditional love (the dogs) within you will be unharmed.

What might tend to happen in such circumstances is that you call yourself all sorts of names.  The accident invites you to become more aware of the conscious need to let go and trust.  If you refuse to let go and maintain  the hold on your creative self then life will find a more powerful way to find creative expression through you.

If you use this technique of metaphor hunting and thinking you are in fact making conscious that which is below the surface but which powerfully wants to express through you.  Using this technique gives meaning to that which appears meaningless. It also helps you listen to the way that life’s creative energy wants to move.  It can also allow you to avoid more intense suffering.  It also can tell you that there is a force that created you to be an expression of Love in form and will not allow you to be less than the totality of who you are.

Remember that your life need not always be an uphill struggle although that is how it might often appear.  Sometimes you will be out of control and you go careering downhill.  Your ego gets scratched but if you allow it the infinite can get a chance to flow through you.  You might wake up to find that you are being invited into something that is more than accidental, that you are being invited to express Love’s purpose as it is intended to move through you.

You can have a lot of fun with this technique and more importantly it can provide you with deep emotional insight.  It doesn't have to be a chore.  It can be your new years resolution that invites the creative potential within you  to go into overdrive.

© Tony Cuckson 2008