Oneness
Posted by MichaelJun 21
The theme for today’s writing workshop was Oneness. Five of us sat in the cozy living room of workshop leader Bonnie Sparling’s quaint home. Away from the summer heat, on this longest day of the year, we were invited to follow Bennie’s simple formula for writing from the deep: (my words not hers)
- Finding an actual thing
- Looking at it and thinking about it
- Examining it closely
- Feeling into it with our heart while looking at it
- Closing our eyes and dropping into an even deeper connection with it
- Asking our heart (essence) to do the unedited writing. Listening and writing what we hear.
We wrote about what Oneness means to us, Oneness with the natural world, Oneness with Self and Others and Oneness with the ordinary in Everyday Life.
We opened our journey with this piece from Hafiz:
Voices ring within each of us.
Voices cry within each of us.
Voices sing within each of us.
Let us hear, but not too much!
Let us hear but not too much!
For I must bring myself to listening
I must bring myself to your words.
And Rejoice!
The glory of the moments when your story touches mine!
Today five people’s our Stories touched one another.
We Rejoiced!
I’ll be sharing one or two of my unedited pieces over the next few days. So stay tuned , if you like, for a peek into my soul. May not be pretty but my soul’s story.
In Wholeness,
Michael
Bonnie Sparling is the founder of Flowery Prose and offers writing classes for everyone. She can be reached at FloweryProse@gmail.com or 404. 660.7705.
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