Circle Dance of Time, The

Circle Songs

Song in the Beginning In the beginning is the song, and it will be in the ending, now a presence in our hearing, now an icon in our seeing, all creating, emanating, and evolving —the Word of life out of silence all around. Heart’s Reasons Our storyboat, our argosy upon time’s river, searching for a happiness only a vision can fulfill, sails onto oceanic consciousness of Being: we do not just choose but we discover our own mystery of I and thou, of I in them and thou in me, the mystery of our loneliness, sailing alone and unalone along the riverrun. Quiet Eye We all have within ourselves a center that a silence is surrounding, stillness like a quiet eye, the heart of hurricane, a seeing eye, an eye of God, the peace of presence, for eternal life belongs to those 129 Circle Songs who live in presence in the peace. Divine Milieu The silence that is round our inward center is the presence of God in the heart who is the same as God in the universe, and Parousia is the presence of the Christ with us all days unto the end, when presence now that’s hidden will be manifest to all. Heart Sensible Faith is God sensible to heart, Pascal says, and so heart is sensible to God, aware of God, if beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope it trusts God and is wise beyond sense. Kindled Heart Take the ring of promise, for your labors will be heavy, but it will support you in the weariness you take upon yourself —it is a ring of fire and with it you are able to rekindle other hearts, although the world is growing cold, and your own heart, alive with passion, heart’s desire, will cast out fear. Illumined Mind Inner light that comes of faith is Christ within, and is enlightenment of spirit, and is guarding guidance on the way, blessed assurance we are known and we are loved, 130 Circle Songs and we see in the light but do not see the light until it is perpetual. Emanation All emanates in One, a Word of life we know in all the words of everlasting life he spoke in time, words of the Word that is eternal, and the world’s first languages in song were from the Word and for the words that he would speak. Singing Timelessness A melody that sings itself, a singing timelessness of heart, an emanation of the One —this is the source of thinking that is thanking for all that has been and Yes to all that shall be, Thanks! and Yes! that turns a life around. Eternal Silence Eternal silence of these spaces I do not know and that do not know me, yet harmony and music of the spheres (What do I know and who knows me?) —I call my God the unknown God, the God of Jesus, and I trust beyond all knowing my God knows and loves. Return (Epistrophe) Everything returns and goes back to its origin, and we return to our own origin in God, to find therein our own true being, for we have come forth from there Circle Songs 131 into the world, and then again we leave and we return to God, going home with all the love that is from God of God to God. Transcendent Longings Our heart is restless til it rests in God, or else it gets and does not get its heart’s desire, if it is set upon the finite, til by letting be and openness to mystery that shows and then withdraws it rests in restlessness. Heart’s Rest Our restless heart can rest in You, when it goes from its rest in restlessness, its poise as of a whirling gyroscope, into the stillness at the center we all have within ourselves, surrounded by the silence of your presence, God with us. Far Point On the circle of our dancing there must be a far point where we pass through death and darkness in our loneliness becoming love, —we change by knowing into what we know, by loving into what we love. Walking Alone Love is joy at the thought of one you love, and loneliness is longing to be unalone, 132 Circle Songs and love of God is...