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Spirituality

Devotion runs through the archive as both offering and disappearance.

Signals
44
First seen
2007
Last seen
2026
Span
20 years

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The theme of spirituality is woven throughout Matthew Williamson's writings, often emerging in unexpected ways. In posts like A Modern Shiva Poem (2013), he explicitly explores spiritual themes, invoking Hindu deities and concepts. In contrast, posts like 312 Any Street (2008) may seem unrelated to spirituality at first glance, but upon closer reading, reveal a deeper concern with the human experience and the search for meaning. Over time, Matthew's writings show an evolution towards more explicit spiritual exploration, as seen in posts like Are you ready to meet God? (2015).

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The thread through time

44 posts across 12 active years, oldest to newest.

  1. 2007 6 signals
    1. Perspective and Context A friend of mine prays every morning, laying in bed, holding her rosary. Her eyes are closed as she slowly recites her rosary and lets go. She lets go of the he...
    2. Ice and Needles Something I wrote over a decade ago. She walks to water’s edge lowers her weeping head why does she cry, for whom does she care? Does she know his name, call ou...
    3. The Good Life Last night I was on the living room floor, two of my children were asleep against me, each occupying an arm like a jealous lionesses on a kill. I was paying mor...
    4. What Would You Do With 150 Years I watched a very good presentation by Aubrey de Grey on TED. I am going to embedd the video below and then talk a little bit about these thoughts. So this is am...
    5. My Grandfather's Treasure I sat for a couple of hours with my grandfather recently. It has been a long time since I was able to spend so much time alone with him. When I was young I woul...
    6. Thank You Mom I was watching people at lunch today, sitting alone in the corner at Taco Bueno , eating my bean burritos and thinking. There was a mom feeding her son a taco. ...
  2. 2008 5 signals
    1. The Goddess Note: A good friend of mine sent this to me out of the blue, and it is wonderful and amazing. I am blessed to have read it. Thereupon, Manjusri, the crown princ...
    2. It's Simple Really, Animals Are Not Food On January 3, 2007, the leader of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, made a strong statement against eating me...
    3. 312 Any Street Love was walking away again, chasing it wasn't an option this time. For maybe the first time since he could remember, he was worth more than this. He was worth ...
    4. For Love of Darkness Let drop the anchor pull in the sails damp the lantern this night is done for me Darkness, wicked lover of lonely souls, caresses me I sleep upon the waves of i...
    5. The Dark Sea On my knees, in prayer position, I closed my eyes, and began to see... The crown of my head becomes sand, like a dry sand castle I crumble and my body falls awa...
  3. 2009 5 signals
    1. Sound Of Joy In the morning sun you laughed, now let the sound of that joy keep you warm in the sunset hours. What is it like to forget the noonday sweat, not knowing who yo...
    2. The Prince, a Monk, and Tea There is a kingdom called Sukhavati, the Realm of Bliss, it is land of light and magic, prayer and chanting, knowledge and compassion. Within it there dwells a ...
    3. There Are Moments There are moments In between breaths and blinks When the whole of creations sighs When all of us know the truth. There are moments In darkest of hours When noth...
    4. I Am I am the lone tree, on the grassy hill, waiting for the birds to return. The stars and moon light up the darkness, but the robin is not in my branches. I am the...
    5. Desolation He stands nude before the translucent pod.  The pill shaped container may as well be on fire for all the enthusiasm he has to enter its embrace again.&nbsp...
  4. 2010 5 signals
    1. Sometimes Sometimes I want to scream to beg to plead Sometimes I want to smile to sigh to close my eyes and just be Sometimes I am alone in a room full of people invisibl...
    2. Die To One Life "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter a...
    3. Buddhist Vegetarian Reasons... Just one more reason I need to adopt a true vegetarian lifestyle. Just as no pleasures can bring delight To someone whose body is ablaze with fire, Nor can the ...
    4. Eternally Old, Shared Among To look into the blue diamond to wander through the fields of gold to smile at the moon and see her smile back To listen to the birds of paradise to speak with ...
    5. To Breathe A Tree I sat against the trunk of the ages old tree and closed my eyes. I was tired of walking in this forest of melody and mist, I needed a rest, I needed food, I nee...
  5. 2011 5 signals
    1. A Moment Lost It was happening again, between her breathes she was immortal. Every leaf in the trees stood motionless. Birds stopped mid-flight, frozen in the air before her....
    2. Always She laid the coins on my eyes - cold... she did not think to warm them for the dead He removed the leaches from my whiter than white skin - do they not know I c...
    3. Upon My Soul With you beside me a stainless sky within my mind Clouds of timelessness and laughter With you holding me solid rainbows of sound Rains falling down to replenis...
    4. A Message of Hope (Video) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_YOG3jMlV4[/youtube] I simply loved this video.
    5. Simple Sonnet I said I would give you a sonnet, I made no promise it would be worthy...   Is there a reason to imagine this light in the sky, Is there doubt, look into t...
  6. 2012 3 signals
    1. The Cave and the Sadhu The cave sits just above the treeline on the southern face of a rather unassuming mountain. Standing in the mouth of the cave the Sadhu can see a vast green jun...
    2. Stuff I've Tweeted... Sky like mind, mind like wind, wind like laughter, laughter like heaven. We are all a daydream. I catch moments when the I-ness expands into a wholeness of bein...
    3. More Alan Watts goodness... Currently watching this, and I think you should, too. via YouTube
  7. 2013 2 signals
    1. A Modern Shiva Poem [caption id="attachment_739" align="alignright" width="300"] Lord Shiva, in meditation.[/caption] Namaste to He who is the speaker and the listener Namaste to H...
    2. Living Forever [caption id="attachment_781" align="alignright" width="300"] Who Wants To Live Forever[/caption] A friend of mine said this to me: Lets do it. Lets live forever...
  8. 2014 3 signals
    1. Magic Words I think about this often. Magic. Words have power. When you consciously will there to be power or connection in these words then they become magical by shear wi...
    2. Questions. How do I call out to divinity? How do I call it by name? How do I limit the wholeness to a word? How do I know the ocean by a wave, the tree by the leaf, the to...
    3. The Universe Tree Last night I dreamed that I was sitting on a high branch in the Universe Tree. The branches span galaxies. Nebula float in and around leaves, suns glisten like ...
  9. 2015 2 signals
    1. Prayer by Guru Rinpoche to Wake Us Up!  [caption id="attachment_1031" align="alignright" width="300"] Padmasambhava[/caption] "Whatever appears to the eye, The outer universe, inner living beings and ...
    2. Are you ready to meet God? [caption id="attachment_1098" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Mooji[/caption] Are you ready to meet God? Then, right now, don't touch anything, not any idea—ne...
  10. 2016 2 signals
    1. The Court of Flowers The woman’s skin, the color of alabaster and gold, opened as the true-silver blade touched her flesh. She, a warrior who had stood for countless ages, fell to h...
    2. For Love of Darkness Let drop the anchor pull in the sails damp the lantern this night is done for me Darkness, wicked lover of lonely souls, caresses me I sleep upon the waves of i...
  11. 2019 1 signal
    1. I am lost I am lost Nothing to see Nothing to touch Nothing to hold To taste To feel To be No walls make this prison cell No bars on no windows No chains on my ankles No ...
  12. 2026 5 signals
    1. The Shade Was Good An old man shares his willow's shade with a tall stranger in a green coat, and finds himself speaking a name he has not said aloud in many years.
    2. The Light Next Door A widow in a Scottish coastal village notices a soft golden light in the abandoned house next door — and begins to wonder if the dead can linger with kindness.
    3. The Willow and the River A willow-keeper of the Irish wells meets a Naga-kin walking from water to water — two ancient guardians from very different traditions recognizing each other across a pub table in Connemara.
    4. The Demonization of the Daimon How the early Church reclassified the daimon — the attending spirits of place and person — as demons, severing a living relationship with the world, and why that speaking is quietly returning, one threshold at a time.
    5. All of It Is True A walk past every gate the worlds have built — Ganesha, Hekate, Èṣù, Inanna, Anubis, Odin, Raven — and the one ford you cross alone.