Vibration: the substratum and soil of soul

Readings

”[…] a calling to belong to something greater, something luminous stitched throughout the horizontal and vertical realms of life. […] an initiation, a coupling of soul-self with the land and the elements and with the web that meshes, coils and weaves it and us all together”

- Sharon Blackie 

”Early in the season the water may be so cold that one has no sensation except of cold; the whole being retracts itself, uses all its resources to endure the icy delight. But in heat the freshness of water slides over skin like shadow. The whole skin has this delightful sensitivity; it feels the sun, it feels the wind running inside one’s garment, it feels water closing on it as one slips under — the catch in the breath, like a wave held back, the glow that releases one’s entire cosmos, running to the ends of the body as the spent wave runs out upon sand. This plunge into the cold water of a mountain pool seems for a brief moment to disintegrate the very self; it is not to be borne: one is lost: stricken: annihilated. The life pours back.”

- Nan Shepherd. The Living Mountain.

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