Christmas Eve/Christmas Carol

From haikujaguar's Unexpected One Card Draw earlier this week:

When I was shuffling for you, one card wavered, about to be smashed back into the deck and I... I took pity on this tired and struggling thing that seemed to want to be free and plucked it loose.

I turned it over, and there was the Womb, the card of potential, of possibility, of new things grown and nurtured in secret.

Those breathless little hopes and ideas you have within yourself, that seem silly or pointless or like they'd never succeed, so why even try? I have only one question: Why not?

From way back in the quote file:

Eros is the yearning force of being. I yearn, therefore I am. As long as I am on the outside, I can ignore my deepest desires and stifle my longing. When I am on the inside, however, when I am fully present, I am able to access my yearning. For the Hebrew mystic, unlike his Buddhist or Greek cousins, desire and longing are sacred. To be cut off from the eros of yearning is to be left in the cold of non-existence. To yearn is to be aflame.

Depression is at its core the depression of desire. When we lose touch with our authentic desire, we become listless and apathetic. There is wonderful eros in desire. It is what connects us most powerfully with our own pulsating aliveness. Longing is a vital strand in the textured fabric of the erotic. It is of the essence of the Holy of Holies.

--Mordechai (Marc) Gafni