Category Archives: Year 2013

What is it really ?

 I don't know who gave birth to me
 nor what this world is
 nor who I am .

 I see these light years around me
 and find me quiet
 at a point of this immensity
 without knowing why I am here rather than elsewhere .

 I don't know why this little time that is given to me to live
 is here at my feet
 enshrined from all eternity
 in what preceded me
 and in what will follow me .

 I only see infinities
 from all sides
 like dust fluttering in the ray of sun
 as form erased by the following form .

 What I know
 is that I must die
 but what I don't know
 is this very death that I cannot avoid
 and who summons me to life
 like the prodigal son
 in the arms of the father
 in this world of mystery
 where the fracture of the promises
 summons us to be what we have always been
 in the bridal chamber of beginnings
 the shadow of your shadow
 my destiny .


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the weaving of the psychological and the spiritual

The human being is ternary. He is body, psyche and spirit.

The body, this is what we see of us, he is weak and perishable.

The psychic is the middle floor. He is the movement, the emotional and the mental. It is fluctuating. We can't build on him. The psychological clears things away. It removes obstacles and can make available to elements of self-knowledge but not to our awakening, to this state of well-being and unification with what is, in the end fulfillment in the unfathomable mystery of what drives us deep down of our being, this momentum, this “viridity” working, such as the designs Hildegarde de Bingen.

The spirit or fine point of the soul, or the heart, is what is near and communicates with the higher worlds. The mind is recognizes that he is indestructible. It is huge, bright and happy.

The human being is like an oil lamp including the lamp body, the oil and the wick would be its three floors. The body would be the terracotta object of the lamp, the fragile container and necessary otherwise the process of self-growth would not start. The psychic or psychological would be the oil, metaphor of movement, of emotions, of the riches and the beauty of being, of what nourishes. The wick would be the spirit, the very place that can ignite with divine fire.

All these components form the human being in search for harmony with, however, a hierarchy between them, the wick spiritual being the pinnacle of our quest.

The mind is this place extended to infinity, this light, this joy that dominates the inclemencies of existence and all the pains of being to guide it towards its realization.

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( Text freely inspired by Jacqueline Kelen )

Papa, you are the ?

  


daddy are you there ?
daddy are you there ?
You lived as a good and generous man
93 ans
in fidelity to yours who are dear to you
93 ans
of simplicity of modesty of silence even
93 ans
presence on our land
reflection of an elsewhere much bigger than us
93 ans
and then nothing
and then we
was
your children your grandchildren your great-grandchildren
who form a microcosm in this grand universe
a miniature world
a world of beings in the making
a world moving towards the future .

daddy are you there
ici
in our hearts
in memory of a time spent together
with lots of moments that come to the surface
breaking away from a bygone past
in elevation of an experience to bear fruit .

tell daddy where you are now ?
I remember that time when you went to work on your bicycle
from Grenelle to the beautiful neighborhoods
and what mom said
that we would meet you
and that even without talking to you
even when you held back your emotions
even when I was counting on my fingers
additions and subtractions
even when I was drawing a heart
on the mist of the square in rue Saint Charles
I was waiting for you .

Daddy you are no longer of this world
peace to you
in this eternal place .
And there will be a day
where we too
we will disappear
and what will be said
if we were great
if we were hateful
because everyone knows how babies are made
but do we know how dads are made !
To have restarted your sleepy being
in my heart filled with light
I exult in leniency and love
in recognition of you
my dad to me
our dad to us your children
prolonging by a simple detour to be alive today
the obligation to continue our work
not to be afraid to move forward on our path .
Faire
do well
make or break
let's not shrink the world
to its vagaries and its suffering
there are also wonderful things happening there
and it would be criminal to trivialize these things
let's get in touch with each other
strengthen our ties
collaborate celebrate gratify glorify beauty
so that in this separation from you, Lucien, who brings us together today
so that in the tragedy of death common to all of us
remain in meditation
remain silent
remain in this moment of meditation
stay in love .


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three small candles

  Three small candles
and what come back
the testimony of hours spent in harmony
the thrill of the depths of creation
capturing the breath before it bursts forth
the strength of a look behind the glass
the subtle presence of eternal being
the marquetry of extinct memories
the bewildered perplexity of illusion
the brilliance of a comet that never happened
the apprehension of appearance
the calm of repeated gestures
the romance of old songs swapped
the beyond of the forms awaiting their fulfillment
the enchanting transcendence of the moment
the calm in front of this being leaving towards the open
the wound felt in contact with broken glass
the sliding of fingers on fresh skin
the tradition perpetuated by recognized objects
constantly renewed experience
the fluid sand of nomadic aridity
the dense hatch of sedentary force
the conquest of matter in light of being
the transparency of the outpouring of the finished work
the rising of the curtain in front of the sun
the rise in consciousness towards the heart of the world
the intimacy of being enshrined in law
evidence of evidence accessible to the artist
the blurring of events in the redemptive mist
the restoration of our interior lands
the long and humble work of clearing
war against shadows
the good man in his restorative instances
the fresh complexion of our faces become wise again
music in restrained asceticism
beauty in grace of being universal .

To be alive in wondering reverence for secrecy
to remember the traces of humans
to breathe in the only worthwhile reality
the fine breath of good posture
daily praise
the contemplation of a simple colored stone.


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Bien sûr qu’il eût du courage

 Of course he had courage
 that man
 to live long years with caution
 simplicity and modesty
 to steer his boat
 along the daily banks
 without having to ask where to go
 without seeing the time pass
 slowly progressing towards the estuary
 where the limits slip away
 where everything turns gray
 that the view darkens
 lack of air
 that the mind no longer responds
 but where does it go
 triumphant in his expectations
 the mystery
 this uncreated light
 this intense light coming from very high
 this gap
 habitée de vieilles âmes
 this frail skiff
 disappearing in the mists
 this high point
 merging with the horizon
 in remembrance of what comes and goes
 the space of a held breath
 in memory of what was
 traces of your name on the scarified trunk of the tree
 be assigned
 to transform this bittersweet writing
 in duty of conscience
 walking on the path
 understanding of what is
 crepe of the reopened wound
 an end of summer
 as a stare fails
 at low tide
 in him whose heart dwells in love.


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Aging alive

 receive life
 like a gift
 as a present.

 Inhabit all ages of existence
 childhood
 the youth
 adulthood
 old age.

 Improve like good wine
 too young the wine is acidic
 maturing is the work of time.

 Don't be obsessed with body stigma
 traces of time passing
 the bitter wrinkle is only the kiss in continuity of being
 Dwell in life and in intelligence.

 Every day make discoveries
 intellectual affective sentimental
 Everyday be in the new
 Vivre.

 Do not look on the neighbor's plate
 don't be jealous
 stay in oneself
 at the window of wonder.

 Grow again and again.
 Aging is not being old
 to grow old is to go in life
 to be old is to lose the taste for life.
 
Be intellectually curious
 look at existence like a child without being an eternal child
 look at existence from the perspective of youth without being an eternal teenager.

 Always go further.

 The longer we live, the more we build this distance
 which allows you to be there
 while already being elsewhere.

 With a single gulp seize the dusting of things
 before the lamp goes out
 so that shores reached
 to dissolve
 the space of a smile
 with the blowing wind
 in the light of the coming day .


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stand on tiptoe

 hands up to the sky
to touch the stars
and then realize
that they illuminate
these hands
hypnotic candle flame
that we don't want to see go out on a windy evening
beeswax hands
to spell your name on the clouds
slip off death row
Avoid trifles exchanged at Heaven's Gate
do nothing more
for bare head
in humility
receive
this outstretched hand
in the silence of poetry
clear sound
of the keyboard of all music
towards which to walk
slow explosion of sentences
on the invisible of the encounter
to make visible the pretty blue of a sky
smoothed by fairy fingers .


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A dot on the i

 pure space dans lequel fleurissent et se perdent les fleurs
 Le sens aigu de la citrouille se découvre calèche
 L'ange me convie à ne plus toucher terre with its diaphanous wings
 Un souffle
 Une caresse
 Un vertige tranquille empli d'exquises senteurs
 Les cigales stridulent
Tout concourt à la redistribution du livre d'heures
Du point pierre éclate l'envol soyeux de l'âme
Oiseau de passage et si présent
Éloquence élégiaque defenseless more like a fire
Et si persuasif
Que ces choses vides et indifférentes in tender familiarity
Me somment d'être en dehors de moi
Pour d'une mort éclose
Donner sens et amour
En retour de mission. 
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l’imagination créactive

     L'imagination active
 the creative imagination that creates in and through action
 imagining it letting itself be carried away by what is
 he is I' " being " in the thick of things
 the i-magine
 Maginot lines
 in their frozen concrete
 for measured defibrillation
 get in the airwaves
 which come and go and are spaced out
 creating the intracellular vacuum
 weaving logical associations .

     There is singular scope 
 every time a face
 lights up the top of the dark shale wall
 bright eyed face
 and white beard
 that the soft voice makes vibrate .

     Scale of Life
 torn from the first reptile
 that the wind blows away from the path to the prickly bugs .

     Fog horn heard
 when from the valley
 ride the breath of the beast .

     Stamped indentation
 Avogadro's number
 whose open jacket reveals
 the heart oozes with myrrh .

     Momentum in flight so slow
 angels above
 chestnut and holm oak
 candelabra in my house .

     Vertical thinking
 out of the impulsive wave
 imprinted scents
 the roughness of the glabrous exchanges .

     Monosyllabic return
 panting of the animal
 out of the woods
 edge of beginnings .

     just yourself
 in whom the other without ankylosis
 take the bloat out of tradition
 under the veil of acceptance .

     Sagacity at the risk of being
 just a turnaround
 at the dawn of the new day .


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Psychology, what heals

 Of point of the person who meets a shrink :

L’intention. want things change in my behavior, let the sufferings ease .

The relationship, the quality of the relationship, to face each other, where the individual becomes a person. The quality person is always interpersonal ; there can be no “is” without one “tu”.

“I do not really become a person only when I look you in the eye and I allow you to look into mine.”

Establish the link, a bond by which one feels welcomed and accepted in one's be, a connection felt deep within, far beyond what we can say and express, a bond that makes you feel naturally at home self, and that an essential exchange will take place .

the speech.To be welcomed with its own language. My language is me. It's what makes me be in the world, protects me and defines me. It's a essential part of my identity. my language, these are my words but also this that my physical body shows through movements and microphones – signs .

Healing is belisten, it is to meet a professional who is in a present state and not tensevigilance, whose attitude of active benevolence can move me and make you want to confide in me. I wait for the other to be calmly centered in himself and that his unconditional acceptance of what is is full and whole .

is to be heard andwelcomed without judgment.

This isto feel by my body, my psyche, my soul and my affects what is happening in me about what is happening there, so different by the framework of the meeting and yet so close to me bytrust which is established .

This isnumberconcisely and most clearly possible what i feel .

For the practitioner :

It is to identify by listening as broadly as possible to all the elements of the process of meet, in a continuum of consciousness, in Le contact in the process of unfold there between us, in the contact that is established here and now but which nevertheless illuminates the past and the future .

It is to create a climate of lightness and freedom for the other, which also allows the identification analysis elements .

This iscreate a frame just as concrete as symbolic and imaginary, clear and safe, but which must not be a wall adjoining to allow access to the real setting .

It is to launch tracks, hypotheses, milestones, which the other can seize if they are its scope, without being redundant with what it is, nor too far from his emotional capacities and understanding of the moment. This isadjust creatively and with relevance to situation .

It's loving everything the having of this being before oneself in what it gives .

This isto love the being of that being, his accumulated wealth in his life story, its potentialities and what it is in the deployment of himself, in its unfolding towards its growth of being, in its opening to world .

This is maintainthe right distance between him and me in order to update and work on the disturbances in the relationship between him and his environment,  with maximum clarity in feel and readability in expression without forcing the other to be other than what he is where/and shows its entourage .

It's clearing all the elements ofconfluence, fromprojection, d’introjection, fromrétroflexion and D’egotism in what is being played out about our meeting. It is to be the tactful mechanic who sensitively dismantles and reassembles the small pieces of human machinery that remain very much alive during the existential transaction that connects us, conjugates us, declines us and we grows up .

It is to consider the other as a growing human being, like a pilgrim on a path initiatory, embarked on an uninterrupted path of consciousness. be a man, is to be a traveler, Always moving .

This isfrom the beginning, from where the other is, with his life story, with his emotions that feed the emergence of what unwittingly hatches in the crucible of our contact. The quality of being “nobody” and not an individual implies a quest for his true identity for the purpose of constant effective individuation towards what one is really .

It is to hold the course and be theguarantor of the frame, to record what is happening, was, in the space-time of the present encounter and in the succession of our encounters .

This isexperimentwith relevance, situations that happen to the rhythm of the one who comes in confidence to be treated and under the guidance of the one who is responsible for caring for him. So will be able to emerge these elements of the psychological mechanics at work in our psyche, not in hitting the other with peremptory diagnoses and restorative balms but by directing him towards paths where he himself may be able to give meaning to what is happening .

Do not use histheoretical knowledge only with caution. Theory and technique cannot embrace the whole of the psyche, the psychic treatment being a ” total relationship ” who engages the practitioner as much as the patient far beyond theory and technique .

This isto be patient without being wait-and-see .

This isbe stimulating without preceding the other on his way of life .

This isto be fair in his actions in the sense of“justice” so as not to deceive the other and give him desire to go even further in self-knowledge .

This is be in creative fit with what is there, correct the, in the here and now and aftercontact .

It is to live in simplicity, in humility and awakening the psychology session where the work also goes beyond our cognitive abilities to clarify situations, good beyond what is said here, and where the change that occurs there is as much skills matter, than vitality andself-healing abilities so stimulated that the no one possessed deep down .

It is to prefer the uncertain and sensitive value of human activity experiencing what happens the, to the reassuring tranquility full of a priori, of inferences and false certainties of those who know how to go about treating, of one who calms – although it is sometimes necessary – , failing to register the person in a step ofresponsibility and conscience to build itself his happiness .

Poetically your is to know that in the mists of the morning just as much as in the twilight of the evening, there is everything around us that is not us, that live or have lived by multiple people and that the world is full of possibilities for meeting and dialogue .

open up in self-respect to what is other can only be relationship who heals .

It is to bethe adventurer of his future, onwonder and in view of its behaviours, on the way to well-being on your lifeline. This is belibre, which is not easy because as Kirkegaard says : ” The most terrible thing given to men is the choice, freedom . “

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