The Restory Retreat Centre

  Existential Health Inhabit existence; Create Meaning; Assuming Authorship The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Creative Piece This week's creative piece, a painting, is actually more about the painter than the painting itself. In this quiet, introspective man, one can see 3 characteristics of existential health. L.S. Lowry, the British painter who painted "Going to the Mill" in 1925, looked his reality, the industrial city of Manchester, squarely in the eye. While others viewed the industrial cities of the time as ugly and crude, Lowry saw the beauty, the loneliness and the humanity in it. He did not paint an artificial, elevated world; he painted the point of contact with reality. Returning to last week's subject: To rest meaningfully requires that we, like Lowry, stop waiting for an "ideal" or "perfect" world to come to a standstill in front of us. It requires that we look the reality of our daily lives with its mills, its smoke and...

  Eksistensiële Gesondheid Midde-in Realiteit; Jou eie Outeur; Ongeleende Betekenis Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Kreatiewe Stuk Hierdie week se kreatiewe stuk, 'n skildery, gaan eintlik meer oor die skilder as oor die skildery self. By dié stil, inkennige man kan mens 3 kenmerke van eksistensiële gesondheid sien. L.S. Lowry, die Britse skilder wat "Going to the Mill" in 1925 geskilder het, het sy realiteit, die industriële stad Manchester, vierkantig in die oë gekyk. Terwyl ander die industriële stede van die tyd as lelik en kru beskou het, het Lowry die skoonheid, die eensaamheid en die menslikheid daarin gesien. Hy het nie 'n kunsmatige, verhewe wêreld geskilder nie; hy het die raakpunt met die werklikheid geskilder.  Om sinvol te rus, vra dat ons, soos Lowry, ophou om te wag vir 'n "ideale" of "perfekte" wêreld voor ons tot stilstand kom. Dit vra dat ons die realiteit van ons daaglikse lewe met sy meule, sy rook en sy onvolmaaktheid...

To Dare   The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music All around you  people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe. Shane Claiborne                                      With our love. George & Matilda  

Om Te Waag   Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek All around you  people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe. Shane Claiborne                                      Met ons liefde. George & Matilda

  Just Beyond Yourself Just Beyond Yourself Just beyond yourself. It’s where you need to be. Half a step into self-forgetting and the rest restored by what you’ll meet. There is a road always beckoning. When you see the two sides of it closing together at that far horizon and deep in the foundations of your own heart at exactly the same time, that’s how you know it’s the road you have to follow. That’s how you know it’s where you have to go. That’s how you know you have to go. That’s how you know. Just beyond yourself, it’s where you need to be. David Whyte                                                 The Conversation Elements From The Conversation There is a road always beckoning.  With our love. George & Matilda

Net Buite Jouself Just Beyond Yourself Just beyond yourself. It’s where you need to be. Half a step into self-forgetting and the rest restored by what you’ll meet. There is a road always beckoning. When you see the two sides of it closing together at that far horizon and deep in the foundations of your own heart at exactly the same time, that’s how you know it’s the road you have to follow. That’s how you know it’s where you have to go. That’s how you know you have to go. That’s how you know. Just beyond yourself, it’s where you need to be. David Whyte                                                 Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Daar is 'n pad wat altyd wink. Met ons liefde. George & Matilda  

  Hello, Things! Marc Greets Things In The Morning Hi boy with the cycle on the vase with the flower nower, nower hi chair at the table hi bread on the table hi sweet fisherman-fish with the pipe and hi sweet fisherman-fish with the cap cap and pipe of the sweet fisherman-fish hi Hii-i fish hi darling fish hi small fisheline mine Translation: George Angus                           The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding out your solo voice You must note the way the soap dish enables you, or the window latch grants you freedom. Alertness is the hidden dis...

  Hallo, Dinge! Marc Groet Soggens Die Dinge Dag outjie met die fiets op die vaas met die blom plom, plom dag stoel langs die tafel dag brood op die tafel dag vissertjie-vis met die pyp en dag vissertjie-vis met die pet pet en pyp van die vissertjie-vis goeiedag Daa-ag vis dag liewe vis dag klein vissely van my Vertaling: George Angus                                        Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding out your solo voice You must note the way the soap dish enables you, or the window latch grants you freedom. Alertness is the ...

  Starting With Mary, Involving Us As always, be here, be present. Breath deeply, becoming aware of your body. Whenever your mind wanders, ever so gently bring it back to this present moment." Returning to Friday evening and most of Saturday, we listen once more to Mary's question:  "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"  Her poems Wild Geese  and The Journey  give pointers, helping us to grow into our own answers. We start with Mary, but very soon we are totally involved. And by we, we refer to ourselves, other poets, people all over the world. The wonderful poet in his own right, David Whyte, reads Mary's The Journey  in the following recording.  (It must be Melanie Lutz's little dog, that sometimes seems to be dead. The Melanie who was listening to David Whyte, was busy recording him while watching her little dog and posted the video. Mary would've loved the little dog, filling the screen) In the latter part of th...