Comments on: Tales of the Wellspring part 2 ~ the origins http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/ Trying to stay in balance... the blog of Vivienne Tuffnell Mon, 20 May 2013 06:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tales of the Wellspring 3 ~ inspirations « Zen and the art of tightrope walking http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/#comment-7095 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:09:33 +0000 http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/?p=2757#comment-7095 [...] for part two visit Tales of the Wellspring 2 [...]

]]> By: Viv http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/#comment-6372 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:04:58 +0000 http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/?p=2757#comment-6372 So am I. It’s one of those things that’s haunted me ever since, nigggled away. Thank you for visiting!

]]> By: jesamac http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/#comment-6371 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:54:26 +0000 http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/?p=2757#comment-6371 Solitude, silence, nature in harmony = the wellspring of a spiritual life, the essential for a mystic. So glad you found it so young!

]]> By: Flo Fflach http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/#comment-6364 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:32:44 +0000 http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/?p=2757#comment-6364 groups can be hell for me. Discovering that I can be part of groups but that mostly I am on the edge, observing was a help – it came from some mentoring from a very perceptive observant mentor.
As I read this I thought of the video that I discovered today
http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html

water, wells, springs are important to me

]]> By: thewellhousecircle http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/tales-of-the-wellspring-part-2-the-origins/#comment-6363 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:03:28 +0000 http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/?p=2757#comment-6363 I read your story with interest, Viv. I can strongly identify with your need to find solitude, and the idea of sleeping in a communal space as you describe sounds absolutely horrendous to me. I would never have agreed, nor would ever agree now, to participate in this kind of ‘holiday’. The nearest approximations I’ve had to it have all been dreadful. I admire your perseverance through to the wellspring discovery, which like a lotus in the mud, is offset by the context and feels all the more special. I think sometimes we have to go through the struggle, pain, that feeling of being at your wit’s end before the Other experience can be discovered and felt.

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