When you gaze at an object, you bring blessing to it. For through contemplation, you know that it is absolutely nothing without the divinity that permeates it. By means of this awareness, you draw greater vitality to that object from the divine source of life, since you bind that thing to absolute nothingness, the origin of all. On the other hand, if you look at that object as a separate thing, by your look that thing is cut off from its divine root and vitality.
Dov Baer of Mezritch (?-1772)
from The Enlightened Mind, edited by Stephen Mitchell
September 28, 1998
Still another guideline for the initiation of action or expression that has been withheld is the person’s own sense of lack of “finishedness,” or in Gestalt terminology, lack of closure. Words unsaid and things undone leave a trace in us, binding us to the past. A considerable part of our daydreaming and thinking is an attempt to live out in fantasy what we fail to live in reality. Most frequently, “unfinishedness” is created by witholding the expression of appreciation or resentment.
Claudio Naranjo
Gestalt Therapy
Comment:
This could be one source of the “Call” in the Hero’s Journey. Leaving things “unfinished” creates tension, and when the tension becomes strong enough, we are “called” to do something about it, to release the tension, to complete the “incomplete gestalt”, to restore equilibrium to our psyche. [R. Harris]
The Hero's Journey: A resource for educators, teachers, and students
When you gaze at an object, you bring blessing to it. For through contemplation, you know that it is absolutely nothing without the divinity that permeates it. By means of this awareness, you draw greater vitality to that object from the divine source of life, since you bind that thing to absolute nothingness, the origin of all. On the other hand, if you look at that object as a separate thing, by your look that thing is cut off from its divine root and vitality.
Dov Baer of Mezritch (?-1772)
from The Enlightened Mind, edited by Stephen Mitchell
September 28, 1998
Still another guideline for the initiation of action or expression that has been withheld is the person’s own sense of lack of “finishedness,” or in Gestalt terminology, lack of closure. Words unsaid and things undone leave a trace in us, binding us to the past. A considerable part of our daydreaming and thinking is an attempt to live out in fantasy what we fail to live in reality. Most frequently, “unfinishedness” is created by witholding the expression of appreciation or resentment.
Claudio Naranjo
Gestalt Therapy
Comment:
This could be one source of the “Call” in the Hero’s Journey. Leaving things “unfinished” creates tension, and when the tension becomes strong enough, we are “called” to do something about it, to release the tension, to complete the “incomplete gestalt”, to restore equilibrium to our psyche. [R. Harris]