Status Updates From The Mist-Filled Path: Celti...

“…people often become suicidal when they desire a ritualized and symbolic death of an old way of being, of an old life or identity.”

“…a longing for simple things like beauty, silence, connection to nature, story, rites of passage, peace, and initiation into our fuller selves.”

“…in addition to developing the proper eyes with which to see, I must also cultivate the proper feet with which to walk the path. One gains the proper eyes and proper feet, I have found, by slowing down.”

“An old therapeutic axiom in Gestalt psychology: the healing of a wound must come from the blood of the wound itself. In other words, the healing of an emotional or psychospiritual wound is brought about precisely by entering into its terrain, not by avoiding it.” 💯!

Soul fragmentation from trauma:

“Our lives are meant to be steeped in peace, yet when we are living within a state of soul loss, our destined unfoldment toward a life of peace is postponed until we have become whole again. We feel ‘beside ourselves’ until we are reintegrated after a harsh experience or trauma.”

“The soul was never meant to be seen completely.”

“The soul is a timeless, feathered thing that flies in more worlds than one.”

Cymru (Celts of Wales)

The spirit of hiraeth: the longing for something my soul had known once upon a time.

“…all great things have come forth from the ancient weave of silence.” (xxix)

“…people remark that they feel out of place, out of sorts, depressed, or bored when a true moment of quiet descends on them. This is how fundamentally exiled we are from the natural texture of our own silence.” (xxix)

Intro xxi: “We are not at home in our homes, because we are not at home in ourselves.”

It is time to set our root and wake up. (xxii)

How is it with your soul?

The willingness to orient our lives to such questions demands that we slow down a lot. If we are to truly set our roots in such soil we must aspire to create sanctuaries of stillness in our lives. (xxv)