Fettered to a mortal vessel, I have fought the good fight, on several occasions, to be free of its external circumstance. But in this dominion, it sheds the shackle that binds me to it, and allows the soul of me its freedom, if only for short bursts of time.
My vessel is a coward. It hides the truth of me within the insecurity of the external sheath that protects and guards. If only it were aware that it does not need to protect. I am who I am, and yet the armor will not allow me to shine, out there. Ah, but in here, in here I can and I will breathe on my own. In here, there are no guards to protect.
For those of you who enter this site with your vessel, you will not understand nor would I expect you to.
I am a soul that has been liberated to feel and convey the certainty. Dare anyone join me?
"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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—Mark Twain, 1896
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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Terracina/San Felice
THANK YOU FOR VISITING
1 comment:
I will gladly join you although, I must say, I am a bit terrified...
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