Rose Blooms

I have, within the past year, been learning about and becoming ever more aware of “The Wisdom Way of Knowing” – not only a book by Cynthia Bourgeault, but as it says, a way of knowing that seems to have been lost by the Christian West.   I am learning about a way of knowing that goes beyond my intellectual mind to include the whole of me – my mind, heart, and body.  And in learning about my emotional center and identifying it partly with my heart, it was important to know that, as Cynthia Bourgeault makes clear in her book, it is not the “…seat of our personal affective life, not the melodrama we call our “passion” or our soul.”  Please do not hesitate to read more about this in her book!
 
But one day, this mandala emerged as symbolic, to me, of the emotional center in the sense of utter devotion, awe, and fall-prostrate-on-the-floor gratitude that such Living Water nourishes my heart, my life, and that I am “here” to co-create with and participate in the Divine Life that flows in and through the slowly-blooming-rose of me, the “I am” as a fractal, a mirror, of the great I AM, all thanksgiving to The One.
 
The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault, 2003, page 32.    
 
Credit for the title Slowly Blooms the Rose Within: Composer, Jim Simmons,  https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/EsSu3zrgoJV19rov6