Poetry

You can only learn what I am teaching if you have poetry in your soul.
John Kells

Or, as Joe Massey beautifully put it, "You awake / within the poem."

It's like a yearning for something beyond yourself - what we call the Internal. It is the ultimate light and life. If you yearn for it it's because you hold a little of it in your heart and it's wanting a home. The tragedy of the human race is that the more we progress the more we move away from the Internal, this is because our progress is external (technological) rather than internal. The reason I post poetry is because I know it's vital for a student's progress to become interested in communication beyond the mundane (use of words). John Kells doesn't read poetry but he writes it all the time (every day) and often has me read it to him - it always reduces him to tears. Good poetry is all about lifting the heart and making it tremble with anothers and ultimately with the heart of Go(l)d. This is also exactly what our work is all about.