What does it mean to be full of life? Can you imagine the fullness of life flowing out in all directions and enlivening everything around it?
Enlivening is the opposite of encircling. Enlivening is the act of kindness that comes from being at the center and seeing yourself as the source of life. This is not egotism. It is devotion.
Fullness of life is a general term easy to smile at but not easy to understand until we break it down to its parts. When we enliven we are often enlivening a
part that is no longer rightly flowing.
Light is the part of life that illuminates.
Warmth is the part of life that radiates.
Tone is the part of life that
resonates.
Force is the part of life that generates.
When you experience a corpse there is no light, no warmth, no tone, and no force flowing from it.
What is the source of these four
parts? Four rivers flowed out of Paradise. Can you imagine a spiritual being that does not flow with all four? Could life have come about in the absence of any of these four?
For an enlivening exercise for tonight I suggest you write poetically about these words seeking to understand them:
Flow
Luminous
Radiant
Resonant
Generative
We can look into our souls and see the imprint of moments when flow came close to drying up or began to inundate. When light began to dim or blind. When warmth chilled or burned.
When tone lost all harmony or tightened into a rock. When force weakened or overpowered.
When we understand these flowing rivers of life we can work with them within ourselves, in others, in nature and in the future bringing our own light, warmth, tone and force to enliven all from the paradise of our own hearts.
