This poem is beautiful. I did not know Levine was a poet. Poetry is beautiful.
As always your commentary was helpful, full of insight, helps to expand the mind
to take in the beautiful poem. God’s peace and healing. Carol

This poem captures the essence of my inner life for the last two years. And for me, it look at long time to get there–a long time. At 60, I was called out of my 30-year marriage into a life where I dance with/dodge/embrace this way of being in the world. I’ve been connected with someone who has her own version of this. It makes for a powerful kind of love and learning. I feel very blessed to have this inner gate open during this life, and feel the suffering of those who have been unable to taste this water.

I have pasted below a poem I wrote about this–it deliberately mirrors a Robert Bly piece called The Face in the Toyota. I wrote the mirror image to capture for myself what life and love are like on this side and then the other side of the ego-gate.

Blessings.

Bill

The Face in the Honda

Suppose you see a face in a Honda
One day, and you fall in love with that face,
And it is Her, and the world rushes by
Like water down a Virginia creek.

And you fall slowly to the softening ground
And you can’t tell God from a blade of grass.
And your life is changed, except that now you
Are awake to more than ever before;

And what your new eyes see fulfills your days,
And you are buoyed up, and your family
Expands and is more dear, and the woman in the Honda
Becomes part of a new and radiant world.

And now the grass becomes grass again,
And the nature of each thing glows from within.

-Bill Prindle

Shalom & namaste,
Diana