Comments on: I awoke this morning http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/ spiritual awakening and enlightenment in today's world Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Darrell Grizzle http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15810 Darrell Grizzle Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:20:50 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15810 Great poem! I'd like to encourage you to post it on the Discussion Board at the Facebook group "Coffee Mystics" - I know our caffienated mystics would love it! Great poem! I’d like to encourage you to post it on the Discussion Board at the Facebook group “Coffee Mystics” – I know our caffienated mystics would love it!

]]> By: Jon http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15788 Jon Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:23:47 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15788 Thanks, Tom, I'm glad to have you here, and I quite agree: Fr. Rohr rocks! Thanks, Tom, I’m glad to have you here, and I quite agree: Fr. Rohr rocks!

]]> By: Tom http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15742 Tom Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:42:54 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15742 Much to share and discover...thank you for sharing life, your life. I, too, am being drawn to Catholicism...and my transport has been Fr. Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation in ABQ, NM. www.cacradicalgrace.org We are one, dear Jon. Peace and Love. Tom Much to share and discover…thank you for sharing life, your life.

I, too, am being drawn to Catholicism…and my transport has been Fr. Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation in ABQ, NM.

http://www.cacradicalgrace.org

We are one, dear Jon.

Peace and Love.

Tom

]]> By: Irving http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15691 Irving Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:08:55 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15691 Wow, really beautiful and stirring :) A great poem... Peace and Blessings! Wow, really beautiful and stirring :) A great poem…

Peace and Blessings!

]]> By: Jon http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15480 Jon Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:33:51 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15480 Wow! That really is close! Amazing, really, since I haven't heard the song. I think it's further evidence that we aren't our thoughts... the thoughts are a product of the One mind, and get sent to the available receptors. Great song! I think I'm about to become a Trev Harden fan! Wow! That really is close! Amazing, really, since I haven’t heard the song. I think it’s further evidence that we aren’t our thoughts… the thoughts are a product of the One mind, and get sent to the available receptors.

Great song! I think I’m about to become a Trev Harden fan!

]]> By: Trevor Harden http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15478 Trevor Harden Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:54:34 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15478 This is a great Poem, Jon. I really love it. "I'm not alive. I'm life." Good grief, that's perfect! I will say that your wording reminds me of my song "The Air Up There." In fact, I feel like it's a RESPONSE to that song in a way. My version starts off the same but is all about the frustration of drowning in the drama of life... while yours is the hopeful realization that all is One. Dig! <i>felt a brush upon my face and sat up from my slumber- startled by the purring in my ear. this calico, that i named MoFo, stepped upon my chest and reminded me, so rudely, that she needed fed. when i hit the floor, and opened the door, little did i know i cracked a dam... a wave rushed in and pulled me under and as i struggled through the water, my first thoughts were, "the toilet's overflowed." but as i choked and gasped for air, what i soon discovered was: it was the life i had created ushering my death. well, the water down here is frightful- but the air up there: delightful- you have to choose if you'll drown or float i think i'll build me a boat. </i> This is a great Poem, Jon. I really love it. “I’m not alive. I’m life.” Good grief, that’s perfect!

I will say that your wording reminds me of my song “The Air Up There.” In fact, I feel like it’s a RESPONSE to that song in a way. My version starts off the same but is all about the frustration of drowning in the drama of life… while yours is the hopeful realization that all is One. Dig!

felt a brush upon my face and sat up from my slumber-
startled by the purring in my ear.
this calico, that i named MoFo, stepped upon my chest
and reminded me, so rudely, that she needed fed.

when i hit the floor, and opened the door,
little did i know i cracked a dam…

a wave rushed in and pulled me under
and as i struggled through the water,
my first thoughts were, “the toilet’s overflowed.”
but as i choked and gasped for air,
what i soon discovered was:
it was the life i had created ushering my death.

well, the water down here is frightful-
but the air up there: delightful-
you have to choose if you’ll drown or float
i think i’ll build me a boat.

]]> By: John Rogers http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-15443 John Rogers Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:14 +0000 http://frimmin.com/2008/03/20/i-awoke-this-morning/#comment-15443 Wow, Jon, I just stumbled across your great site this afternoon and find you have just posted this wonderful poem! What led me to you was a weeklong silent retreat at home and an intense study of the mystics, guided by Andrew Harvey's 'Son of Man' and Evelyn Underhill's classic 'Mysticism'. I suddenly remembered the famous quote that "mysticism begins in mist and ends in schism" and a quick search brought up your site where you quote it. I will certainly be coming back for more inspiration! I also just found this lovely piece about how mysticism is like poetry over at The Website of Unknowing which is on your list of Fellow Travellers: http://anamchara.com/2008/03/05/how-mysticism-is-like-poetry/ Wow, Jon, I just stumbled across your great site this afternoon and find you have just posted this wonderful poem! What led me to you was a weeklong silent retreat at home and an intense study of the mystics, guided by Andrew Harvey’s ‘Son of Man’ and Evelyn Underhill’s classic ‘Mysticism’. I suddenly remembered the famous quote that “mysticism begins in mist and ends in schism” and a quick search brought up your site where you quote it.

I will certainly be coming back for more inspiration!

I also just found this lovely piece about how mysticism is like poetry over at The Website of Unknowing which is on your list of Fellow Travellers: http://anamchara.com/2008/03/05/how-mysticism-is-like-poetry/

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