Inspiration from Annie Dillard: GO INTO THE GAPS

Ezekiel excoriates  false prophets as those who have “not gone up into the gaps.” The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes are so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself for the first time like a once- blind man unbound. The gaps are the cliffs in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are the fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock- more than a maple- a universe. This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. 
From “Pilgrim At Timker Creek”

How do you go into the gaps in your life?

Re: Inspiration from Annie Dillard: GO INTO THE GAPS

This is a marvelous quote Wabi!! 
In my life, I have found that any time I chase anything, I actually end up pushing it away.  For me, this is especially true of spiritual … 'experiences', if that is the right word.  I certainly have had fun with this.  I do intend 'being there'.  I do “stalk the gaps” from time to time.  It is delicious fun! 
With great affection, I have long called the gaps the “inbetween”.  Those moments of being inbetween, in the gaps, are so wonderfully fulfilling.  Its as though the experience itself speaks to your very core without actually saying anything, but by communication in a deep communion with your essence.

The way I find myself in the 'gaps' is that when I am ready, ie when I have sufficiently dreamed “it” into being, the gaps find me.  And when they do, they are … pure experience.  I can actually ride the flow from beginning to end, without thought of expectation or control.  When those moments suddenly appear out of no where, especially while you just happen to be ”spending the afternoon…”, well that is the divine reaching out and touching me, from the outside in, and from the inside out, simultaneously.  That is one of my life's greatest rewards.  What about you all?

Re: Inspiration from Annie Dillard: GO INTO THE GAPS

Hey Beautifuls…

Ramana Maharishi taught to ask the question Who am I? to go into the gaps.

The answer is not in the mind. We are used to using the mind to solve problems, and so there may be a tendency to try and answer this question through the mind, through thought.

Continuous practice stabilizes the knowing that what the gap is is ourselves….
We are not all that comes and goes, we are the gap which is always present underneath all manifestations, thoughts, feelings, experiences…

With love,

Soul