Nate and Maria’s lives and passions are eerily similar. They share a love for personal growth, technology, and entrepreneurship. Both are dedicated to a daily spiritual practice and both are hard at work managing and building their own companies. They will discuss philosophy, sciences (natural and behavioral), the arts, technology, whatever else their hearts desire, and how they bring about spiritual insights into our lives, that are both abstract (may stay there) and practical (we hope).
When brainstorming a title for this blog Nate said he once read a ‘terrible long’ poem (which ended up being a T.S Elliot poem) but that had a beautiful verse in it that really stuck out to him: “At the still point of the turning world.” The poem is quite long. Here is the quartet that matters.
Time and the bell have buried the day,
The black cloud carries the sun away.
Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis
Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray
Clutch and cling?
Chill
Fingers of yew be curled
Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world.
Maria and Nate agreed it was perfect.
What is this still point? It is the stillness one brings into the dynamic and hectic modern life, through breathwork and meditation. It is about the little moments in our day that become the only and ultimate reality. It is the interplay between the non-changing Self and the changing reality “maya” the world of illusion, in which we live. It relates to our innate need to create order in chaos.
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