tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post2343702568897014422..comments2023-07-06T07:46:36.301-07:00Comments on Dwelling Here Now: Finding Safety in the WhirlpoolAnthony Lawlorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03824258496229176866noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-47148474076872335762010-02-05T22:23:52.306-08:002010-02-05T22:23:52.306-08:00I love your posts and the conversations they have ...I love your posts and the conversations they have started. I love how you think and express yourself. This is beautiful, Tony. Thank you. You bring me back to my peaceful center.Sherrie Lovlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249050089562279474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-1362142434304858362010-01-31T16:44:46.831-08:002010-01-31T16:44:46.831-08:00Tony, another wonderful, thoughtful post. "Ye...Tony, another wonderful, thoughtful post. "Yet, the safe place we seek is already and always here, now. It is the silence permeating our words and the stillness surrounding our actions." I'm learning this daily. We look for safety everywhere but within ourselves sometimes (or maybe it's just me), and the only place to truly find that safety is within ourselves. From within we build strength and courage (because that's where those things live, within the self), and from there we create the outer world that we feel so safe in, whatever that may be. And I'm finding that my definition of safety is constantly being redefined...as is our world.Dian Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749458717879124661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-28234066650525509222010-01-29T17:20:06.523-08:002010-01-29T17:20:06.523-08:00Cynthia et al, Safety is a fascinating topic. It p...Cynthia et al, Safety is a fascinating topic. It plays into every thought , word, action and place. What is true safety and true danger is a constant human occupation.Anthony Lawlorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03824258496229176866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-14790594527223643702010-01-29T12:18:37.907-08:002010-01-29T12:18:37.907-08:00Apparently I'm fascinated by the concept of SA...Apparently I'm fascinated by the concept of SAFETY. Without meaning to, I'm working on two stories at the moment that deal with this topic. Nice post--thanks.cynthia newberry martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04088261237123157140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-333861342874466592010-01-27T07:10:26.206-08:002010-01-27T07:10:26.206-08:00Thanks for your wonderful comments. Elizabeth'...Thanks for your wonderful comments. Elizabeth's comment sparked the thought that each of us has some unresolved disconnect with life. It might be safety, loneliness, health or sadness. Perhaps, what each of us seeks can be found in the opposite of what we think. Maybe loneliness is healed through being alone, opening to that quiet space and finding we are already connected to the rest of life.Anthony Lawlorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03824258496229176866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-91419578367050077112010-01-27T01:01:42.342-08:002010-01-27T01:01:42.342-08:00Hej Tony,
Thank you for your words. I read Lindse...Hej Tony,<br /><br />Thank you for your words. I read Lindsey's post, it gave me a lot to think about although fear isn't the word in my life.<br />Now I am trying to see how I can use your fluid ocean to accept my deep feeling of being alone in my loneliness. Some say: do something for someone else. Well that advice isn't getting me at all kinds of places, it consumes a lot of my life but still this feeling won't take a hike.<br /><br />Maybe this is my lesson for life, who knows I may find the answer eventually.<br /><br />Have a lovely day Tony and thanks again.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03470810820417327936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-78575224322090557212010-01-24T15:21:00.339-08:002010-01-24T15:21:00.339-08:00Another great post, Anthony - I was reminded of th...Another great post, Anthony - I was reminded of the role of the Earth element in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu practice, how it allays that feeling of rootless anxiety. With a strong Earth element, we can trust that life will support us - it gives us a foundation from which to spring and fly. Without strong Earth (which is nourished by touch, by community, routine and self-nurturing, among other things) there is little feeling of safety no matter what life brings us. It is no surprise that in a time when our collective relationship to the Earth is a bruised and sometimes broken thing, so many symptoms of Earth-element depletion are everywhere. For those who have difficulty feeling safe anywhere, working with the Earth element in the body can help them feel grounded in themselves, supported by the archetypal mother.<br /><br />And yet, as you suggest, there is a deeper grounding that can occur - this can, in fact, be a gift of a wounded Earth element: that we ground ourselves not simply in our bodies, but in the nature of change itself, looking beyond body or mind, to the deeper presence of 'is' that experiences the moment.<br /><br />How we get to there is another matter! Enter the mystics & their countless variations on a theme of stillness :)<br /><br />I love reading your posts - after the blip blip blip of twittering to each other, it's a joy to break into a longer form. Thanks again!<br /><br />@coyopaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00644698182428824562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-52960783134285194282010-01-24T14:37:27.068-08:002010-01-24T14:37:27.068-08:00Thanks so much for these beautiful, thought provok...Thanks so much for these beautiful, thought provoking words. I really like the idea of trying to be fluid.<br /><br />And you are right, it's the people beside us that help us remember. Thanks for helping me remember the safety in the whirlpool of change!Shawna Cevrainihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007517958798998264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-8591024022819083142010-01-24T12:08:37.426-08:002010-01-24T12:08:37.426-08:00I so appreciated your comment on Lindsey's pos...I so appreciated your comment on Lindsey's post that I clicked over to read more from you. How delighted I was to find these musings, expanding on the ideas you shared at ADSV.<br /><br />I especially appreciate your imagining of the world as a fluid, shape-shifting entity: "Trying to always stand at the head of the food line and keeping the burglar alarm on high alert doesn't work in in a watery world with no center and no circumference. Feeling safe in an ever-shifting world requires that we allow ourselves to be as fluid as that world."<br /><br />Thank you for some more food for thought this afternoon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172588542839160395.post-64449882741471293132010-01-24T12:04:57.199-08:002010-01-24T12:04:57.199-08:00I am both humbled and grateful that my paltry word...I am both humbled and grateful that my paltry words may have in part triggered this gorgeous essay.<br />And it is so right. And so, so hard for me: being fluid is the absolute opposite of my nature. This is the way in which safety is inextricably linked to faith (in my mind): only with the tether of faith to keep us from flying off into the dizziness of fear and anxiety can we trust enough to let go and be fluid.<br />Lots more thinking to be done, but thank you, thank you so much.Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909653448867538655noreply@blogger.com