Meeting Reality

Exploring imagination and Reality

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‘No. You’re forgetting,’ said the Spirit.

‘That was not how you began. Light itself was your first love: you loved paint only as a means of telling about light.'

The Great Divorce by CS Lewis

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@malcolmguite Good morning

In your usage of the word "meaning" are you conveying that meaning is always a true way of looking?

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Exile as pilgrimage.

Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman encounter a marvellous ancient image of Lord Narasimha.

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@malcolmguite Unsurprising and very well deserved

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Narnia Trailer. I was worried, but now I'm reassured.

Thank you @NarniaMovie

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Shrimad Bhāgavatam

Ma Yashoda with Bal Gopal Little Krishna

10.8.39
एतद्विचित्रं सह जीवकाल-
स्वभावकर्माशयलिङ्गभेदम् ।
सूनोस्तनौ वीक्ष्य विदारितास्ये
व्रजं सहात्मानमवाप शङ्काम् ॥ ३९ ॥

Inside her son’s open mouth, she saw this whole astonishing creation: living beings, time, their natures, actions, inner tendencies and varied bodies. She saw Vraja, their own home, and even herself within it. She was overcome with bewilderment and apprehension. Verses 37–39

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Dear Malcolm, thank you so much for replying. So kind of you to take the time.

Yes, by God’s Grace alone.

Lila Chintan is loving contemplation of God’s Divine Play, beginning with imagination.

By Lila Pravesh, I mean being granted a place in that Divine Play, to be with Him, by His Grace.

This is where I wondered about the kinship with your writing on imagination.

Thank you for all that you share.

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Dear @malcolmguite

Firstly, thank you so much for your books and videos!

Secondly, would you happen to be familiar with the Hindu practice of Lila Chintan?

It is a contemplative practice which starts with imagination and culminates in not just "Darshan", insight into the Reality of God through inner vision, but eventually in being granted a place in Heaven (Lila Pravesh) by God's Grace alone.

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“The most important thing you can say about God's love is that God loves us not because of anything we've done to earn that love, but because God, in total freedom, has decided to love us.”

— The Life of the Beloved

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A raven remembered

At the sound of that name Ged saw for a moment, by a trick of memory, a black raven on green grass who looked up at him sidelong with an eye like polished stone, and spoke; but the words were forgotten.

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, chapter 6, “Hunted.”

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“Thus far I have been speaking
of the fourth and last kind of madness,
which is imputed to him who,
when he sees the beauty of earth,
is transported with the recollection
of the true beauty;
he would like to fly away,
but he cannot; he is like a bird fluttering
and looking upward and careless
of the world below;
and he is therefore thought to be mad.”

Plato ~ Phaedrus

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We are far too easily pleased.

@CSLewisDaily

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In one note, in one primordial Om,

He has created a universe vaster than we can imagine.

Imagine what His whole song sounds like.

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You Are God’s Poetry.

~@malcolmguite

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@ScottRoberts St. Teresa of Avila

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Ram and Sita at Mirkiatal Lake

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Bowai Trees

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"Everything you work on, is also working back on you... Transforming you in a certain way."
~ @LeyfMax

[Caylon DePalma @CaylonDepalma]

Recently began listening to this on Audible. It is read aloud by the author. It is absolutely incredible! @malcolmguite has penned a masterpiece.

If you love the Arthurian stories, you simply cannot miss out on this book.