When ink joins a with a pen, then the blank paper
can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven
to be useful as a mat. If they weren’t interlaced,
the wind would blow them away.
Like that, God paired up
Creatures and gave them friendship.
Rumi, Essential Rumi, trsltd by Coleman Barks
I read over the Part I part, and I realized I went no where near where I meant to with it.
So I’ll try again.
Apparently it takes a really long time for something to slip down between the folds of my psyche. I’m slow like that at times.
One of the big sayings at the Unity church which I attend is “Know that you know that you know.” Which, on an intellectual level, I got. There is a difference, obviously, between intellectually understanding and really, really getting something.
I don’t know the particular moment that I got that I got that I got it, just that I didn’t at one point, and then I did.
There was a particular moment when I realized something absolutely wonderful, though. There was a shining, singular moment when something spectacular and fabulous and utterly wonderful occurred to me. There was a shining, singular moment when I realized something so profoundly simple.
That I didn’t have to be fat anymore.
Lyrical Fool 