Ebb and flow

Action and contemplation
go hand in hand together
in mutual recipriosity
so much so
we should not try to part them

feeling and thinking
doing and being
outer and inner
mind and heart
above and below
we are, they are, all is
co-related,
it's not so much that they are interconnected
it's more that they are inseparable

ok now we know this
the question is
how do we experience it?
how is the apparent dualism transcended?
after all it is an illusion
these are only words
that can seem as real to us
as the warm rays of the sun on a summers day

whichever door we go into first
feeling or thinking
it will lead to the other,
because they take you into the same room
they are like different ends of a sandwich
or different points on a circle
all paths lead to the other
if we let them
they are mutually inclusive
and feed one another
like the serpent eating its own tale

and yet they can become blinded
blocked from one another
like a pendulum that is caught and stops

what is then missing is awareness
an awareness of the other
of the others existence and how to welcome it in
we all have an inherent preference
socially the west educates towards thinking
and yet to not embrace feeling
is to miss the whole experience
and those of us who are all feeling
lack an appreciation for logos
being stuck in one place
is to miss the need for flow
the movement
the dance
the completion.

Transformation and change,
as Richard Rohr says, are everything;
"When prayer is authentic
it will always lead to actions of mercy;
when actions of mercy are attempted at any depth,
they will always drive you to prayer."