Percival and the Fisher King

In a legend about the Holy Grail, two questions are asked. What ails thee? and Whom does the Grail serve?
This is my observation of sorts about that text in The Awen Alone (Van Der Hoeven).

A story about Percival and the Fisher King.

Percival missed the opportunity to ask two questions of the King. The first is What ails thee? The opportunity to show compassion. 
In the story, I think, the idea is to seek within to understand our selves better and become more able to control our responses to the good the bad or the ugly. "...eliminating a reactionary response for a more intentional response..."; to show compassion for our selves serves to help us feel compassion for others, and in this story that would be the ill King. Not asking what ails thee, kept the King from healing.

The second question Percival missed asking, Whom does the Grail serve? Once again we come to intent. Questioning our intentions can give us pause to work out the best path to take. Need to practice that myself. A lot lot.

While it may be a Aurthorian legend, the questions posed resonate with me. I have used them as affirmation to alter a negative path choice to a better one. Felt good to put into practice something I can believe in. The questions served me by helping me see that I was ailing over the problem at hand and that I really could not change the issue and constantly seeking resolution to an unsolvable problem caused me pain, that I was inflicting on myself. I chose to show myself compassion and change my reality.

"In our quest for wholeness, for Awen, we can either run around in circles, questing after the Grail through established means, or we can simply look within to gain a better perspective on compassion and the divine, whether it be male or female, or even genderless. It is the deep exploration within that allows us to bring that knowledge out into the world - "

I'm no expert. The only clue I have that I belong is the calling I feel sometimes. Something beautiful and endless and so breath taking is calling to me. I have PTSD so cutting through the madness of trauma gets really hard sometimes.

"...instead of simply reacting to an event, we act with intention, with mindfulness and awareness..."

I buy into that. The debris of my old habits takes up valuable space I need to clean out so I can hear the trees.


Many Grammar were hurt in my tale. Sometimes my writing skills work and sometimes they don't.  Annoying for sure but my 'intent' is good ;)