Category Archives: The Coffee Table

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In awe

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michaela

Many, many years ago I heard this piece that started my awe for the music of Richard Wagner, but I could not comprehend it at the time. Now I know that this is the vibration of transcendence. Jessye Norman R. … Continue reading →

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Silent friend of many distances

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michaela

Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all your space. Let your presence rung out like a bell into the night. What feeds upon your face grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Move through transformation, out … Continue reading →

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The Master of Transcendence

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Michaela

Richard Wagner: Parsifal

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All who seek you

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Michaela

All who seek you test you. And those who find you bind you to image and gesture. I would rather sense you as the earth senses you. In my ripening ripens what you are. I need from you no tricks … Continue reading →

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The Wind not of Air

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

THE WIND NOT OF AIR by Justme ‘Go away oh wind so cold, your stabbing knives Of force are not welcome here’ ‘Who could create such a vile and unwanted thing?’ Oxygen, my food, so very near. Yet, you force … Continue reading →

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The longing of a soul

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

Listen to one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Gustav Mahler, Adagietto from the 5th symphony Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Light

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela
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How shall I hold my soul…

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Michaela

  Love-Song How shall I hold my soul so it does not touch on yours. How shall I lift it over you to other things? Ah, willingly I’d store it away with some lost thing in the dark, in some … Continue reading →

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Emptiness dances

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Michaela

Postcard by Catrin  

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Oh come and go

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Michaela

Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete for a moment the dance-move into the pure constellation of those dances in which dull orderly nature’s transiently overcome. Since she was stirred to total hearing only when Orpheus sang. … Continue reading →

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