Reflecting Light

‘LIFE IS HABIT FORMING’

When first approached with the opportunity for collaboration with THE AVALANCHES, there was an internal discussion regarding the nature of the song and what was the intention of the expression.

WHY THIS SONG ?
And Why NOW ?

We are living in and through a time of unprecedented fear, turmoil and upheaval.
All the while seemingly run by people & policies that very much seem to want to
SOCIALLY DISTANCE themselves from WE THE PEOPLE.

And our JUDGMENT OF OUR HUMANITY has seemingly crystallized into a place whereby we are expected to maintain hardened postures against ourselves and keep ourselves in places of DENIAL.

WE EACH through trial and error find for ourselves WHAT WORKS in keeping us engaged with the larger meditation of life and its consequences, while balancing our WILL WITH OUR ‘KARMA’. With the various things we INHERIT from our bloodlines, our societies, our triumphs, our tragedies.

Along the way, we stumble, tumble and fall. And then we rise again. We seek to DEPRIVE WHO WE ARE OF THE OXYGEN OF GRACE whereby it is clear that IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED THAT INDEED, ‘LIFE IS HABIT FORMING’, and conspires that we not Pass through her membrane without having found the FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS for our SECURITY.

In our cultural landscape, we are CONDITIONED TO A HOSTILE WAY of seeing our Adopted habits as NEGATIVE, which then presents us with negotiating a negative spirit.
And whether we choose sports, mental exercises, philosophy, religion or THE ‘DREADED DRINK’, we are each hard pressed to pass through life without BECOMING ATTACHED to people, places and things that provide sustenance and comfort for the long journey ahead.

And in a negative spirit, we get caught up in our Pavlovian Responses and seem that we are ‘ADDICTS’, ‘RECIDIVISTS’, ‘Sinners’, ‘Opportunists’, and various other LABELS that ensure that we will run into dispositions unfriendly to the ANTI-HUMANITARIAN STRAIN OF LIFE that encourages our DEPRESSIONS that suspend our Courage, our Desires and Equilibrium in pursuit of SOLUTIONS to what only TIME & ACCEPTANCE CAN HEAL.

SELF JUDGMENT & REJECTION IS AN ACT OF DAILY CRUCIFIXION that we undertake to align ourselves with a false reality without wisdom or HEART, and our LACK OF UNDERSTANDING only further pushes us deeper into the DARK RECESSES of our PAIN.

Yet, as the great Master American Poet & Philosopher ROBERT FROST intoned;
‘THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH’, and for sure I have come to realize that the ‘Light At The End Of The Tunnel’ is our OWN Patient & Willing Hand.

And there is no greater remedy or solution than to LOVE THYSELF FROM BEGINNING TO END, applying MERCY as an Antidote to the RITUAL MADNESS of our Cultures expectations of A CARICATURE of a person instead of the REALITY OF A PERSON’s Journey and the pitfalls, pratfalls and catcalls that will greet a life going through the CHANGES.

BECAUSE ONLY IN SURVIVAL can we embrace the full TRUTH that we are here to GROW AS SPIRITUAL & Emotional beings, while shouldering OUR ANCESTORS as they too are moved forward through our actions, decisions and most of all through our FORGIVENESS. We can only REFLECT THE LIGHT that is WITHIN US.

OTHERWISE we are blinded by a light that we cannot see.

The SPOTLIGHT FADES, THE CANDLELIGHT DIMS, And our STREETLIGHT SERENADES lose their echoes while we get lost in the vast expanse of THE DARKNESS we inhabit while waiting for THE LIGHT TO COME.

LIFE IS HABIT FORMING and while we work to free ourselves from ungainly Presumptions, WE REFLECT THE LIGHT that acts as the LIGHTHOUSE THAT BRINGS OUR BIG SHIPS safely back into the HARBORS OF CERTAINTY & HEALING.

LOVE IS THE WAY OUT, FAITH IS THE WAY THROUGH.
THE REWARD BEING A MUCH GREATER APPRECIATION BOTH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE, And the PERSONS THAT WE BECAME TO KNOW IN THE PROCESS.

Our Ancient Greek Ancestors implored us to KNOW THYSELF.

Which we can only understand AFTER seeing the SHAPES WE FORM in both the
‘LONG DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL’ as expressed by SAINT TERESA Of AVILA, as well as in the SHADOWS THAT AWAIT US as finally we settle on the banks and shores of the perpetual SUNRISE that hugs the days with the embrace of the RETURN OF THE SHEER JOY OF BEING ALIVE, since those are OUR SHADOWS AND THEY BELONG TO US as onwards we travel through the MIND OF TIME.

LIFE IS HABIT FORMING & its REFLECTIONS are what we remember and one day CAST IN MARBLE & STONE THE SHAPES OUR HUMANITY FORMED AROUND THE LIGHT we reached within our depths to find !

Sananda Maitreya !
May 2020,
Milano Italia.