OUR NINE LIVES

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OUR NINE LIVES

We have our physical lives

The life of the body

Based on function and movement

Nutrition and exercise, sleep and immunity

The House our other lives dwell in

We have our emotional life

A living river of feelings

Subject to droughts, floods, and changing course

Suddenly

We have our intellectual lives

The knowledge we gathered by hook or by crook

Grazing on human interactions and media

A stockpile of wisdom that is constantly growing 

As we try the neti neti method

Of not this and not that, trial and error

To pan for the treasure of knowing, speck by speck

We have our philosophical lives

Our standards, morals, theories and credo

We use to guide us towards righteousness and freedom

We have our imaginary lives

The life we dream of in the future

The life we describe to ourselves about the past

The life where fear and glory hold hands and skip down the Path

Towards the good

We have our subconscious lives in the sub-basement of our thoughts

A bizarro world of sex, fear, mangled conditioning

Symptoms, blind spots and hidden motives

All the things we keep hidden, even from ourselves

We have our financial lives because like it or not

Our money is like our air, the assets we need to survive

Implement plans, move up in the world

Feel as secure as a naked ape can feel these days

We have our social lives, the face we present to the world

A mask, a magic act, a stage play

Where we meet and greet others for mutual benefit and companionship

We have our spiritual lives

Where we connect with the divine, nature, meaning and cosmic joy

We sense the bigger reality behind the ordinary aspects

Of even the simplest things around us

The life of the Magical Child within us

And fills our hearts with wonder.

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