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October 2009 
How could your life be more balanced?
Posted on Jan 16th, 2009
by 
Farland
Farland
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 16, 2009:
I love the feeling of balance. I think bodies are happy to be balanced enough to play with the concept to push to the edges and back and that must be the same for the mind kind of balance and the spirit kind too.
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Yes!
I think being unbalanced is how we learn to balance so the more we practice at where we get unbalanced the better our balance becomes.
Now I want to learn to ride a unicycle!
Dawn and I should bring ours on the road trip!
I have a unicycle riding friend. He has terrible balance. Is his ambition inconsistent with his abilities? Maybe he needs lessons, or does falling off all the time teach just as well?
Ummm, is that a pile of snow pushed up at the edge of the parking lot? Jeez! It looks almost heroic.
Unicycling is an odd thing. We have these great piles of snow everywhere there is some room for them. Last winter the city ran out of places to put the snow. Dawn and I are bringing our unicycles with us to NC and further East.
That (and you) reminds me…
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.” – Leonard Cohen.
Balancing monsters of love. Yes. Exactly.
Oh Siona, I love that! and you! and Leonard Cohen and now maybe for the first time, the idea of a saint.