#17 Spirituality -The use of language
To study my words is to not understand.
To feel my words is to complete the communication from me to you.
I have a concept - you read my words - you feel the concept - the communication cycle is complete - you may have to read the paragraph or entire article again to do this.
That's how language should work -imho.
To tear apart one of my sentences, indeed any sentence from any author, removed from the whole is to become the worst academic.
And in my determination to get the concept across I tend to take liberties with the language partly from a lack of expertise and also because I don't think 'conversational' english is a sin !!!
My words point to the idea I wish to impart - and by the time the article or sub-section within it is finished hopefully the summation of words somehow merges with the idea.
Sometimes it's a few concepts strung together under a general heading with a conclusion.
Some times it's one idea.
My hope is you can piece things together thus.
To get my idea and fill in the things I should have mentioned and omitted to write!
To tie up loose ends..or add links to a succession of ideas that I forgot put in.
And in addition I hope to spawn you taking things further.
"Oh I see what she's doing -she's contrasting this with the earlier one,
or maybe that's my idea and Paloma might agree - that's groovy :)) "
I suppose I am calling for some compassion when we read what people write.
'Badly written' works may yet have great truth in them and many, many insights for us.
Often people are writing in english as a second language (I am not).
I try to feel what they're going on about before I discard stuff.
I tend to 'power-read' or 'skim-read' the whole thing to get an overall idea first -then read it. -or for a book -I might 'dip into' bits of it along it's full course or read chapter headings.
This can be 'dangerous' so I hold my quickie overall view only as a hypothesis for the actually reading.
My point is - because of the way I think language functions best - I am trying to integrate and author's writings into the fullest body of her work I can get or feel like reading.
I don't like to differentiate sentences and pieces of it for 'fear' of loosing her big picture.
And I watch out for spiritual types -redefining words...lol
"Consciousness means knowing" etc...It doesn't...it means being aware of being aware -that's what it says in my dictionary !!!
But again ..maybe he was trying to say "Consciousness leads to knowing"..but sometimes they don't ...lol
Analogies. I tend not to employ them - I find myself discussing the thing itself.
An analogy is the poor cousin of talking about the thing itself...lol. (that was almost an analogy). I don't find myself holding the centre like a 'graceful ballerina' or finding the stillness of a 'still lake'. Ballerinas probably have bad ankles and gymnastically tensed muscles and lakes have all sorts of associations like being flat maybe...lol. It's confusing.
However, I have read some wonderful spiritual analogies but one must withdraw from them asap - or else we find ourselves in the analogy and not feeling the actual thing.
.For my stuff:-
Going deeper -try to feel me.
Try to feel what I am saying.
You can access me any time you like -I am here, I was always here - I will always be here :)
To study the subject an author puts forward is to dwell on it for the time of the read and later in subsequent ponderings.
Indeed,one can disagree ,dislike or battle with an author all the way through her work and emerge yet with insights and blessings!
Thus I write of feelings and spirituality and am happy to point you that way and feel these things, 'the spiritual dimensions' are something I consider very much worth the exploration whether you concur with my thoughts or not.
It doesn't matter what I believe -it's all about you -feel your way -feel your own truth - follow your bliss and all that !!! :))
Love you,
The Totally Huggable Concept
Paloma Porta
5th December 2011
