tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post4288885979180699393..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: At The Campfirechristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-60636334506288920082011-05-01T19:30:55.795-07:002011-05-01T19:30:55.795-07:00You guys want to qualify and broaden things but I ...You guys want to qualify and broaden things but I think the reply reaches into the same areas, that every stopping place leads to someone who can complain of exceptions.<br /><br />I believe that breathing the way Ms. Browning was using it is sacred breath. It is overwhelmingly a part of our spiritual legacy that breath work is in the heart of spiritual practice. There is no question that breath work is not the only way. There is also no question that breath work is one of the best ways.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-52741598165280419762011-05-01T17:22:38.639-07:002011-05-01T17:22:38.639-07:00I don’t think the quote was specific to a physical...I don’t think the quote was specific to a physical action. That would be too limiting. I think taking in as much as we can and savoring, whatever the condition we are in at the moment is a closer meaning.Anthony Ducehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17476865809734682418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-57769676402596591492011-05-01T05:40:25.957-07:002011-05-01T05:40:25.957-07:00perhaps it comes down to what you mean by living. ...perhaps it comes down to what you mean by living. you dare to see into living, you dare to live with passion. to me you are really living. no blinders. that's how i take elizabeth's poem. we can't control our bodies. <br /><br />but Christopher, i went through the forest yesterday. i thought, i am all but 41. and i know this is still young in so many ways. but i jumped on trees and off of them. i sang loudly. i ran. i sweat. i was in the glory of the moment and all about me - my god - all about me. it is like the forest helps me to breathe deeper. and i thought, oh, let me do this until i can't and when i can't - let it all be done, for how am i to live when i can't breathe like this. and so i know living wild in our bodies is something very real also and i wish your body were more your friend.<br /><br />i wrote this the other day. i hope i haven't brought it here already: <i><br /><br />being<br />ever the more alive<br />evermore and everest<br /><br />brings you ever the more<br />in your everest most capacity<br />closest to death.</i><br /><br />have you watched Synecdoche, New York? you must. have patience. i don't think it's for everyone, but frig is it worth it!<br /><br />xo<br />erinerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-76188346771870224662011-04-30T23:44:23.322-07:002011-04-30T23:44:23.322-07:00I have a conundrum with that quote. It is the rea...I have a conundrum with that quote. It is the reason I chose it. The first thing that strikes me, there is a t-shirt quote, contemporary that states, "he who dies with the most toys wins." I used it some time ago here rephrasing it, "he who dies with the most love wins." Now the older version is Ms. Browning's (a bit of a fox, no?) quote, "he who breathes deepest lives most."<br /><br />My conundrum. I cannot qualify. I have a kind of heart failure that tenderizes my lungs, a pulmonary embolism, an allergic condition, and who knows what all else but surely something. I am never far from a coughing fit. I cannot qualify, ever, for Ms. Browning's measure. Can God set up His world with that kind of twist to things? Apparently so. This is one of the ways I know this is not God's World but instead the World that He Permits.<br /><br />I have been blessed in other ways, with special favor. I already know that other people cannot do at all what I can do easily in some areas. That is equally a conundrum, no?<br /><br />Yes.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.com