Regula

Unbeknown to me, although perhaps if I were to trawl through journal and diary entries something may exist to the contrary, I entered a whole new phase of Work at some unknown point, (though I assume it to have occurred earlier this year). Work efforts necessarily took on a different form and it niggled me that those efforts seemed lacking, not having the results I may have gotten used to. Yet I see now something far subtler was at work and my recent reading of Robert Reymond's The Lamb of God just brought it all together, connecting two branches of personal development to the same single limb. Yet now I'm thinking that this period is either closed as in completed or shutting down as in wrapping up. This uncertainty is not an issue, but rather needing a clear formulation - let's steal another's phrase, and call it - a rule of life, which we might call a goal or aim, but no that is something slightly different. My aim still stands: To live in the presence of the Work.

This rule of life however is something else again. It is the Latin regula - a yearning, a tool for spiritual growth. I'll develop this weblog along those lines, aware from the outset that I have never held too firmly to any single form in these matters, usually having different irons in the fire in order to hold continuity in terms of trajectory, if not in apparent outward appearance. So I'll use this format for as long as it proves worth the effort, and then until time restrictions, or war, insist on something more traditional - pen and paper in back pocket, which is always the bottom line anyway.