" When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels." ~Geneen Roth~ This quote inspired my poem. As something deep within us rebels because it knows that ultimately, it's an illusion to define ourselves, or others, and the world by the means of measuring. Like my teacher loves to say: "The most important things in life are not things." When our approach to life is measuring, we limit ourselves, and our experience of the world, into the world of (dead) matter. It's consciousness that animates life, and that consciousness is infinite and immeasurable, and so are we as parts of it. We all know this deep down but we still love to use (measurable) things to define us: for some it may the number on the scale, for someone else the number on their bank account. The list of how we use numbers to define us is endless: it can be the number of achievements, degrees, cars, houses obt...
Women's Spiritual Poetry