KYTHING
a deep flowing together
Kything is derived from the Old English kythe, a word known from both The Vespasian Psalter (c.825) and the West Saxon Gospels (c.1025).
Among the definitions found in a modern English dictionary:
"to make your spirit manifest to another,"
or "to show your true SELF to another."
It can also mean "deep resonance"
or "deep flowing together."
Learning to Sit with Not Knowing
- a song by Carrie Newcomer
​If anything is needed in this hour,
it is those who know their way around in the desert,
who can understand what is going on there, can interpret it...
To be a monk in this time, then, is really to be of the hour.
No one is more necessary, more useful.
The desert is the monk’s world,
and today...
the world is a desert.
​
from correspondence to Theodore Roszak
quoted in his The Desert Experience
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth
“You owe me.”
​
Look what happens with a love like that!
It lights the whole sky.
— Hafiz
Set your life on fire.
Then seek those who fan your flames.
-- Rumi
When someone asked Hamada, the Japanese potter, if imitations of his work bothered him, he replied:
“When I’m dead, people will think that all of my bad things were made by the other potter, and they will think that all of his good things were made by me”.
Pebbles & Pistachio Leaves
