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Daniel:
Jack: Quit your hammerin' and get in here!

Five Stages of the Soul:

"Spiritual journeys are best undertaken with the aid of a teacher, a teaching, and a community [....] Does this mean that one cannot follow a spiritual path alone with a simple faith in a personal God? Of course not. Many people feel no need for formal guidance or for the help of a community. Their own inner belief is enough.

Beauty, the Invisible Embrace:

"And you who with your soft but searching voice
Drew me out of the sleep where I was lost
Who held me near your heart that I might rest.
Confiding in the darkness of your choice;
Possessed by you I chose no other choice:
Fullfilled in you I sought no further quest."
 - Geoffrey Hill, "Tenebrae"

"The soul is the real container of an individual's life [...] The soul surrounds and pervades the body. The body is in the soul."

"If we could but realize the sureness around us, we would be much more courageous in our lives. The frames of anxiety that keep us caged would dissolve. We sould live the life we love and in that way, day by day, free our future from the weight of regret."

"The beauty of God is that sure embrace where eternal love is eternal memory."

"Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eye'd Love observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd any thing."
- George Herbert, "Love"

Does Jack take on the voice of a spiritual teacher, a mystic master, making a call to some deeper and more experiential journey of the soul?

Perhaps it is merely some physical desire on the part of Jack that evokes the call into the night - though it is apparently a necessity as well to prevent damage from the cold. But if the body is contained within the soul as some mystic thinkers seem to perceive, then our physical desires are ultimately desires of the soul.

The most enthralling aspect which is newly presented here is Ennis's fear and lack of courage in the face of Jack's invitation. What harm would have happened in the evening when sleep was young and minds wearied - mayhap none - but it is likely something that both parties learned to regret for the rest of their lives. If they had shown courage in embracing the physical aspects of their relationship could they have freed their future from regret - could they have established some even deeper relationship?

Hypotheses of the past are impossible to test, so we are left to wonder.

The correllation of love and memory in some divine presence recalls the perfection of the final scenes where love is laid bare and memory entwined with it in every way. Death has stripped us of the bright soul, but his memory is perfected, grown, harvested in the now unbreakable love between Ennis and Jack.

Ennis held back his soul from the spiritual journey, though Jack invited him lovingly to pursue it. Finally Jack extends himself so much that the call cannot be refused and Ennis replies to Jack's call with his own desire to seek spiritual meaning in life (and in relationship.)

Daniel:
Sorry people, I do have more meditations coming... I've been very busy at work lately. My supervisor went on vacation so I'm picking up the slack. I am working about 6 AM to 6 PM every day this week. And I am usually going straight to bed whenever I get home. I originally had Friday off, so thought I could get a bunch done then, but I've just been given projects to do then too. So who knows when I'll be able to post more meditations..?? ???

pgcatz:
 I just wanted to thank Daniel.

Daniel:
Yes, I know. I keep appearing and disappearing... I hurt my leg a few weeks ago, badly enough to make moving very difficult sometimes. So that's the main reason I haven't been posting lately. I am about halfway through my meditation notebook though, and I definitely intend to share them with everyone here when I have more time (and less physical pain) to do so.

YaadPyar:
Sorry about the injury - glad to see you here though, friend...I was starting to wonder.

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