hello all... i love this dialogue about circles...actually, i just love circles (and spirals)! i'm with don, they are definitely my friend. i enjoy the way they feel, the momentum that they carry, the openness that they invite, their continuity, dependability, and fluidity. they both comfort and challenge me. i am also a fan of the game spirograph. it's where you have different shapes (but the most common is the circle) with grooves around the edges and holes in the middle for your pen or pencil. you also have a larger shape that is empty in the middle with grooves on the inside. you pick a hole on the original shape and start moving around and around inside the piece which holds the structure. i am always amazed that you can go around and around and around and then eventually end up at the place that you started...your journeys around and around leave such a beautiful, intricate design. for me, the circle holds such power in and of itself. it is a dependable structure inside which we're permitted to go around and around and around until we're ready to stand back and look at the design.
of course, i often get restless or over-excited with the game and my piece falls out of sync with the grooves and i end up with decorated garbage...but that's a whole different thread! well, i meant to just post this quote by Osho (i guess i got distracted!). there's some reference to context, but i think you can see where it relates to the topic at hand. "Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: the height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly, as this becomes your established situation, you start looking around, spreading into all other eight directions. And once you have attained to the point where your height and your depth meet, then you can look around to the very circumference of the universe. Then your consciousness starts unfolding in all ten directions, but the road has been one." it makes me think of looking around the circle, everyone in front of you and yet the road is just one. it also brings the sphere that someone mentioned (sorry i don't know who) to mind. so is this what open space is trying to do... unfold people's consciousness, offer an opportunity to look around the circumference of the universe? ashley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ if you're easily amazed, do come and play! www.ashleycoop.blogspot.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
