Psyche Matters Therapy

26/07/2025

Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Mary Oliver 'Wild Geese'

Artwork Christian Schloe 'Wandering Forest'

24/07/2025

Psyche Matters Therapy offers weekly 50 minute sessions in person or online. Kiranadhi is a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor with a private practice in Hertford and Queens Park in London.

23/07/2025

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your home
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

David Whyte

22/07/2025

22/07/2025

Holy Longing by Goethe

Tell a wise person or else keep silent
For those that do not understand will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death in the calm waters of the love nights where you were begotten, where you have begotten.
A strange silence comes over you as you watch the silent candle burning
Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness and a desire for higher love making sweeps you onward.
Distance cannot make you falter, now arriving in magic flying, and finally insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you have not experienced this, to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.
Translated by Robert Bly

22/07/2025

Tell a wise person or else keep silent
For those that do not understand will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death in the calm waters of the love nights where you were begotten, where you have begotten.
A strange silence comes over you as you watch the silent candle burning
Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness and a desire for higher love making sweeps you onward.
Distance cannot make you falter, now arriving in magic flying, and finally insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you have not experienced this, to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. Goethe

22/07/2025

Holy Longing

Tell a wise person or else keep silent
For those that do not understand will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death in the calm waters of the love nights where you were begotten, where you have begotten.
A strange silence comes over you as you watch the silent candle burning
Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness and a desire for higher love making sweeps you onward.
Distance cannot make you falter, now arriving in magic flying, and finally insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you have not experienced this, to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.

Goethe
Translated by Robert Bly

21/07/2025

Sometimes

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.

Shennagh Pugh

Psyche Matters Therapy offers weekly 50 minute sessions in person or online. Kiranadhi is a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor with a private practice in Hertford and Queens Park in London.