Sound Practices for the Spiritual Journey
Posted by admin on 21 Oct 2008 at 01:06 pm | Tagged as: Divine Beauty - The Invisible Embrace
And in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
This writer has taken the above quotation from Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue, the late Irish poet and writer.
A sound practice for the spiritual journey is to make it your intention each day to invite communion with the heart. This is the invitation for soul friendship. It is true communication and on of its indications is how it lifts the heart. It becomes your heart’s song.
How many people do you meet that you can say “and in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart”? I suspect that they are all too few. On your journey into the heart, which is at the core of the spiritual journey, you will find you have fewer and fewer heart friends.
Those that remain to companion you are your soul friends. They are, as John O’Donohue says, “an invisible embrace to mind your days.” They speak the language of your former heart that was once in love with the dance of creation that is still you.
The sound practices of a soul friend engage with are daily connection with heart language. This can be through poetry, music, song, or story. Story includes reading and spiritual cinema.
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