Antonio Machado is a wonderful poet. The image provided and the short quote from a Machado poem are beautiful and inspiring.
Daily Archives: September 22, 2014
The Wine and the Cup -Rumi
Rumi‘s poetry resonates through the centuries. This short verse reminded me that life is the way we are open up to it. What we receive depends on the number and quality of windows allowing light to enter life.
Gadamer referred to the questions we ask, which open up life, as eloquent . We enter questions as though they are living without presupposed answers ready for exploring.
The moonlight shines into our questions and the size of the cup is of our making. The quality of life is the quality of the windows in our life. Do we age like good wine as we mature? Are we mindful to the character of our living?
Teacher as Transformer 