A weekly exercise
- smcculley
- Apr 7, 2024
- 1 min read
A weekly exercise
Each week an exercise will be posted for the aim of living consciously in the present moment.
The mythological story of Cupid and Psyche as told in The Golden Ass a Latin novel written by Lucius Apuleius.
Venus, the goddess of love, was jealous of Psyche, widely admired for her beauty, and sent her son, Cupid, so that his arrows would make the girl marry the ugliest of men. Instead, Cupid fell in love with her, and, learning that the two were lovers, Venus sent Psyche to bring back a jar containing a "divine beauty" from the underworld. Though instructed to not open the jar, Psyche did so, only to fall into the sleep of the dead, as the jar actually contained the "sleep of innermost darkness." Cupid revives Psyche with a kiss.
This week witness that which keeps you in the inner most darkness (imagination.) Perhaps there are I’s of judgement, negativity, self pity, or vanity. As like Cupid and Psyche, allow love (divine presence) to triumph over death (your lower self with its many I’s)
“He whom Love touches not, walks in darkness.” ~Plato
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1777)
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