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Your thoughts are the hills and animals, the birds and seasons of inner worlds, as you dwell in the universe outside.”
Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time
Jane Roberts
The great limitation of ego consciousness is that it tends to concretize reality in order to make itself feel secure about its own place in the scheme of things. Thus, it perceives life in terms of doing, and doing implies being able to control or manipulate. From this perspective, life is safe and secure and static and dead. If, on the other hand, we can root our identity in being, in trusting the Great Mother, who cherishes all life - our own included - then the door is open for spontaneity, for something new to burst in with the security of those roots. Spirit blows where it wills. It is agile and quick, playing within the spaces of matter, constantly changing color, changing form, changing language, moment by moment open to new beginnings. The third eye, or Ajna center, at the core of the sixth chakra, has been called the perception of the imagination. Imagination is without limits, constantly bringing forth myriads of possibilities. Soul and spirit delight here in the garden of creation.
Laughter, joy, and ecstasy are associated with this chakra and sorrow as well. These are not the personalized emotions of the ego, with its depression and anxiety, or pleasure and excitement. The emotions of the soul are real - intensely real, but they are not personalized. The soul can weep over injustice or the stupidity and greed of humanity. It can rejoice over the budding of a flower, or a little act of kindness. These are the keenly felt emotions of love devoid of self-interest, love that perceives the possibilities and grieves the inability to respond. When we meet someone who loves in this way we know immediately that we are in the presence of a great soul.
Dancing in the Flames
Marion Woodman
We are at an important age of self-analysis. The art of our time cannot possibly rise an iota above the quality of our insight. It takes strength of a high order to get beyond the ordinary intelligent attitudes of experience. It is tempting accept life as a series of opportunities and anxieties, appetites and frustrations, and, having so accepted it, to canon making and seizing opportunities, whetting and appetites, avoiding disappointment This is the pattern of procedure.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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