Don't Tell Me What My Heart Is

yourheartisaradio — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:56 +0200

Don't put a name to my heart, that will only change it. By calling it something, you negate its possibility to be anything. My heart is and can be everything but can also be nothing. Don't tell me what it is because it will have already changed by the time you are done naming it. It will become what that name is not. It will shrink away from all pigeonholes and fill any space it likes, become any color or sound.

In Paris, God told me my heart was a radio and it shied away, became a road.

In Berlin, an artist told me my heart was a spoke but it smiled and grew antlers, chewed cud.

When I was walking in the vineyard, my mother tried in broken Spanish to say that my heart would have to break before it would grow. My heart grew unbearably warm, filling itself with blood and fluid, desperately working all that evening and night to patch its own cracks.

We are wrong to name things, to change things with the act of labeling. It is a sign of our hubris and the source of our agony. Birds do not have names for their wings yet they still know what their wings are, they know better than anyone what the essence of each wing is. Our problems arise in agreeing on what our own words mean.

In the future, there will be no words. Evolution will favor those born without tongues, the ability to speak being an overwhelming weakness in the survival of the fittest. Burning books will no longer signify tyrannical censorship but a spiritual catharsis, releasing oneself from the burden of definitions. We will know the purpose of our souls as thoroughly as we know the purpose of our fingernails.

Until then, I'd like us to sit still, saying nothing and listening to our own ribs thump against our breasts. Lets stare at each other's shoulders, see the hairs rise on our necks when we feel each other's touch, smell the sweat that drips off our elbows and into thin air. I'd like us to think not in words but, for the first time, feel what it is to be human while not having to name ourselves human.

And there, as the wind draws us closer still, we can tremble together awaiting a place where our own hearts make sense without words.

Early notes on Miracle Positioning

yourheartisaradio — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:31:31 +0200

Few things in life are certain:

I exist. You exist. Things happen.

More specifically: We move as Time moves.

This movement creates events, memory. It creates past, present and future.

But that is all I can assure you. Anything beyond that is pure conjecture. Irrational, even.

What we can focus on in this life is what we know. Time. Events. You and me.

These are broad themes, yet simple at their core. Connectedness.

Life is nothing more than a tangled web of connections, invisible wires connecting people with place and event, with history and future.

Amazingly, this web is also the essence of the miracle. Miracles are simply varying degrees of Connectedness, events in which people are correctly placed in Time and henceforth benefit spiritually and physically from such a perfect Connection. Therefore, if we are to claim that the essences of Life and Miracle are the same, then we must also posit that Miracles are just as much a fact of Life as Life itself. Life and Miracle are thereby inseparable.

From this basic reasoning, we can ask ourselves with confidence the following questions:
What am I connected to?
How can I connect more?
To whom and what can I connect?

Things are going to happen; this is an inevitable truth. The discerning person will position herself/himself strategically in anticipation of these things happening in order to produce for themselves the most positively beneficial life outcome. No, this Miracle Positioning is not a supernatural exercise but an exercise in Life, a challenge to actively engage with Life and developing the vision to see the miracles that happen as a result of that engagement. Since we've established Life and Miracle are in fact entwined, then it is easier to see that Miracle Positioning is just as truthfully Life Positioning; no more complicated but no less complicated than that.

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Don't Tell Me What My Heart Is

Early notes on Miracle Positioning