Comunio, Both Song and Silence

by Elizabeth Tillar

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Comunio, Both Song and Silence

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Elizabeth Tillar

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Preface to "Both Song and Silence" (Philosophical Musings)

When we perceive our own identity in the 'other', a sacred trust impels us forward. We learn to know ourselves more deeply, before the receding waters of our vision bring us home. The student becomes a teacher; the wanderer, a resident again; the one broken, whole. And from that commingling we return with something not our own, a treasure hard to attain, the cherished essence of another to enlarge our being. We are never just 'ourselves'; we emerge from a long line of ancestors, both human and nonhuman, that comprise our ever-evolving selves. And, rarely, we encounter one who so embodies what we wish to become that we are privileged to grow in response to such qualities. Assimilating them, we find we have also internalized an unexpected gift of the 'other'. What is 'not-us' integrates and activates all that we are becoming. We are relational creatures; therein resides our hope and our destiny. It is divine communion, occurring everywhere throughout existence; it is ecstatic song and profound silence, an echo of the infinite.

-- Elizabeth Tillar, "Collected Writings: In Search of Wonder," 2015

Music: 'The Book of Love' by Two Cellos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anvRij8tft0 (acoustic cello) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhUi3zrhPcI (electric cello)

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December 26th, 2015

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