Knowing life can vanish in a blur gives the most compelling reason to hang on tight. Knowing we can hang on tight gives us the prime reason to lean hard into the first turn we see.
Moto Memories
Zipping up to Canada from Portland, with Ivan. Amazing roads, beautiful scenery, great company. Wow. A trip Always to remember. My feet up on the passengers seat as I lean into the curves, go through squamy a climbing town I fall in love with……………..ah will it ever be this good again in my life??? Please,please.please!!
The path that lays ahead is clear. Go for it.Divine
Riding on a motorcycle can make you feel joyous, powerful,peaceful,frightened,vulnerable,and back out to happy again, perhaps in the same ten miles. It is life compressed, its own answer to the question “Why?”
A motorcycle becomes an extension of yourself, our body and faculties and hopes and pathologies – and I learned that mine would give me the sort of information it is painful to receive, which is how you know (according to psychologists) it is true.
Meaning
“When people say they’re looking for the meaning of life, what they’re really looking for is a deep experience of it.”
……..He dedicated his life to mapping out the experience of plumbing those depths, which is the journey of the soul itself.”
“Are You going to follow the star of the zeal of your own enthusiasm? Are you going to live the myth or is the myth going to live you?”
“Follow the path, that is no path!”
“the essential knowledge, the hidden harmonies within the dream world….”
His own fascination with the “great stuff of myth” turned thinking into an adventure, translated knowledge into wisdom, and revealed the personal relevance of mythology for those who heard or read him.”
His teacher in those disciplines, he concluded, were all saying essentially the same thing: that there is a system of archetypal impulses that have stirred the human spirit throughout history. It is , as he synthesized it, “one grandiose song.”
the RAPTURE of the REVELATION
Devotion to one’s own inner work is the beam that keeps you on the path.
The Journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity,” alway the one, shape shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”
Fragile and Temporary
Knowing life can vanish in a blur gives the most compelling reason to hang on tight. Knowing we can hang on tight gives us the prime reason to lean hard into the first turn we see.
