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Life Wisdom -♥- Sweet Juicy Heart at the Awaken Studio Toronto

Posted: April 14, 2020 in -♥-, Awaken Studio, Coaching, Dreaming, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Gratitude, Inspiration, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Joy, Learning, Naked Yoga for Men Toronto, Poetry, Queer Heart Talking Circle, Radically Queer, Relationship, Trust, Yoga, YOGA for Men
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The Cure

We think we get over things.
We don’t get over things.
Or say, we get over the measles
but not a broken heart.
We need to make that distinction.
The things that become part of our experience
never become less a part of our experience.
How can I say it?
The way to “get over” a life is to die.
Short of that, you move with it,
let the pain be pain,
not in the hope that it will vanish
but in the faith that it will fit in,
find its place in the shape of things
and be then not any less pain but true to form.
Because anything natural has an inherent shape
and will flow towards it.
And a life is as natural as a leaf.
That’s what we’re looking for:
not the end of a thing but the shape of it.
Wisdom is seeing the shape of your life
without obliterating (getting over) a single
instant of it.

–Albert Huffstickler

This poem was posted by, Mark Fleming, a colleague who I met and worked with many years ago. I have had no contact with Mark other than the poems he posts on social media.

Today this poem had a profound effect on me.

I the past couple of hours I have read this poem over and over again. The emotions, memories and visions of my life that this poem evoked have been unnerving and at the same time liberating and strengthening.

To be told there is a “cure” for trauma, hurt and grief, has always enraged me. To the told “get over it” has enraged me even more viscerally than being told there is a cure for what I feel and experience.

The profound effect of this poem is the affirmation in seeing the natural flow of life, the good and the bad. There is something in me that bursts with joy, power, strength and courage when I can shift my mind to seeing the “WISDOM” that can be found in experience. The “WISDOM” that can be found in every form of the experience of life, pain and happiness, rejection and acceptance, peace and chaos. Each of these expressions of life has a form and when I can nurture the experience, the expression rather than obliterating, “getting over”, I am able to bring myself into the flow of life and experience.

Perhaps this poem, and remembering the words, savouring the meaning, will allow me to be able to find the “form and shape” in the pain that that has flowed through my life. Perhaps in remembering this poem, I will be able to bring my pain IN, allow my pain to be a part of me, rather than “getting over” my pain and “obliterating” my pain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loving you from here.

Phillip

About Albert Huffstickler ~

“In 1988, Richard Lance Williams wrote in The Austin Chronicle about Huffstickler’s poetry, commenting that “travelling [had] instilled in him a great tolerance for the diversity of human behavior and a deep understanding of how a rootless life can drive one to insanity.” As Williams noted, “his poetry reflect this diversity.” “Long or short, elegies or curses, comic or obscene, sad or jubilant, but always in his vocabulary of ideas,” Williams continued, “his poems speak to the longing of a human for an understanding of their place in this strange, dangerous universe.” After another interview with Huffstickler in 1989, Williams commented on Huffstickler’s interest in “the artist’s blessing, the curse; why artists have to create because the terror is so great, the universe without them so incomprehensible, too comprehensible….” As he requested in a poem, Huffstickler’s ashes were scattered in an arroyo outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and by chance or fate, the arroyo turned out to be on Hyde Park Road. As Williams’s eulogy concluded, Huff remains “a soul who even now is on a bus somewhere between here and eternity.”

Photo of Albert Huffstickler, taken in 1999

Photo of Albert Huffstickler, taken in 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: May 5, 2013 in -♥-, Bliss, Flowers, Marriage, Poetry
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Touch Exchange today -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: July 22, 2012 in -♥-, Embody Erotic Desire, Eros, Gratitude, Poetry, Reflections, Relationship, Touch Exchange
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Touch Exchange today … -♥-

Yes, I look forward to these events. I have such a delight build in me as I prepare.

The atmosphere is soft and smooth. The men are curious and fearless. The event is full of new and unexplored territory. The actions bring soothing and healing. The outcome is an ever expanding sense of peace and connection.

I am glad and grateful that what I do can be so close to my heart.

Love- Phillip

I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet ) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you …

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

~ e.e. cummings

Balancing

Chakra Balancing

Journey Today – The Juicy Heart

Posted: January 12, 2012 in Learning, Poetry, Reflections
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The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~Mary Oliver~
 
Travelling today…
 

The Journey ~ Diamond Head - Hawaii - May2011

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Start Close IN – ♥ – Juicy Heart

Posted: January 4, 2012 in Challenge, Poetry, Random, Reflections
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Today fresh and new. 

Starting from yesterday where I had to take a step I did not want to take. I wonder what will come today and which step I will take…  I love this poem it is so on about looking inside to begin.

From David Whyte

START CLOSE IN

Start close in,
don’t take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way of starting
the conversation.

Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them
smother something
simple.

To find
another’s voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes a
private ear
listening
to another.

Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don’t follow
someone else’s
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don’t mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take

http://www.davidwhyte.com/

Start Close In - Indiana Highway June 2009

 

i am – ♥ – Juicy Heart

Posted: January 2, 2012 in Learning, Poetry, Reflections
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I Turn Around and There I am
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 and January 2, 2012
 
“Last but not least I am human,
with all of my dualities.
I am a puritan and a slut.
I am a man and a boy.
I am male and female.
I am leather and lace.
I am dizzy and grounded.
I am hard and soft.
I am dry and wet.
I am full of endless surprise and
I am most often blissfully energetic and
brazenly passionate.
Please take a breath with me!”
 
 
 
 
My Heart -September 2011
 

Inspiration – Juicy Heart

Posted: December 17, 2011 in Inspiration, Joy, Learning, Poetry
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Today INSPIRATION is from a Poem:

Everything is Waiting for You

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

— David Whyte

Inspire – Water Taxi Venice 2010

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Devotion – Ecstatic – Juicy Heart

Posted: November 9, 2011 in Poetry, Reflections
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

… I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

—— Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Devotion - Ecstatic Juicy Heart - Niagra October 2011

A new offering in my schedule;

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path for Men
Bridging the energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart
A two-day exploration of Erotic Energy
Techniques will involve Touch Breath and Movement
 
Toronto – Ontario – Canada
February 4th and 5th 2012
 
For more information contact me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Smiling – Juicy Heart

Posted: October 30, 2011 in Joy, Poetry
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Choice

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You’ll Go!  

"And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

river of joy – juicy heart

Posted: October 28, 2011 in Art, Bliss, Poetry, Reflections, Trust
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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
– Rumi

 I feel at my best when the river is moving in me…

A River of Joy

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