Friday, September 29, 2023

My Therapist Sent Me Something About SACRED ART

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Art can amplify the sacred 
and challenge the status quo. 
The arts help us to hear 
above the cacophony 
in the midst of our multitasking. 
 
The arts engage a sacred frequency 
that is perforated with pauses. 
 
Artists learned … 
there were things too full for human tongues, 
too alive for articulation. 
 
You can dance and rhyme and sing it, 
you almost reach it in the high notes, 
but joy unspeakable 
is experience and sojourn:
it is the ineffable within our reach.
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                                                     Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation 
                              From the Center for Action and Contemplation
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2 comments:

  1. I am pleasantly surprised that your "therapist" allowed comments
    on this deliciously jazzy page.
    Your Psychoanalyst, Dr. Raft may not be
    as hardcore as I thought.

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    1. Rather than just say THANK YOU for your comment,
      I asked Dr. Raft what you could have meant
      by "hardcore."

      After laughing boisterously, he said it meant
      "The Doctor says only what the patient
      wants to hear instead of what the patient
      needs to hear"

      -Oliverio

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