In the twelve holy nights, so says the tradition, the doors open to the spiritual world. The threshold between heaven and earth, it is said, is translucent. In the internalization, which is associated with Christmas, is an increased dialogue between me and me, between you and you and - I would say - between You and me possible. And because it is a spiritual dialogue is all that goes beyond the usual findings, that the activity of listening to.
listening is one of the most beautiful words in the German language. Lounging is a thing of the ears, this wonderful and elegant curves on our heads, which engage the gentle, which is not to take really. If you try the sounds to "taste" of the word - to taste words is a poetic Haute Cuisine - one gets inside spontaneously in a movement that grind something with, and noise and buttons and start with has to do - a task, however, the rather passive function, as if it were possible to entice butterflies to flutter freely online.
listening is a very quiet and very tender implosion. The ear cups bulge outward, are affected by sounds they take in and pass inside, one might say: accompany inside, and there - where I am with me - offer a new form, a substantial existence. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote poetry: "There rose a tree. O pure transcendence! / O Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! / And all was still. But even in that silence / a new beginning, beckoning, change. "
In listening, we are still. We listen to what is coming, what the beginning, beckoning, change means, what will be born and our listening needs to be able to arrive in the present. Without quiet listening - no birth. The image is so familiar to us: you sit down at a candle, is as quiet as the gently flickering flame, and listens ... And listening leads in itself to a threshold, as in the winter woods: deer timidly venture out of the darkness into the clearing.
It is not clear when listening thoughts, but feelings that we sometimes equate a bit awkward with suspicions, desires and dreams. Actually, we must recognize, however, that we lack the right words. The moods come at the threshold to the spiritual world are on us to understand rather than figures to "talk" that can be used - a speech that really means a mutual listening. Feelings - not emotions are meant here - really are like deer: they have their own form, a will, your own domain.
is in the holy nights we are concerned with birth rate to the constant and mostly unconscious events in us that makes us quietly forward. In the first holy nights, offer the intuitions and desires that affect us and seduce, then follow the resolutions, which, like navigation tools in the kingdom-of-the-coming-being work: an attachment is exactly what puts the word: a pre-set, you can always move to the left instead still right. And if the holy nights are gone through the year, appeared on the need for decisions. The design of the next year based on the activation of these big three: desire, intent and decision.
Interestingly, while listening desires, premonitions and dreams are active. You get a room, an inner place where they can come into existence in which they can tell their own story, a narrative that exists only if we listen to her. Stories that are not heard, there are not, (just as there are no texts that are not recognized). Would not it be nice to lift the hidden stories of the holy night into the light? Our attempt to ignite a culture of the heart.
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