White Fay: Only the "both" was anticipated. Your other words and your question were unexpected and thought-provoking. I suppose I'm used to not getting everything I want, and realized it was good for inspiring spiritual work and reflection on the true nature of love, selfishness and wanting to get versus releasing and wanting to give, trusting the Universe, bowing to the highest good for all, being content with life as it unfolds, etc. Every challenge in life leads us down a path where we learn many lessons very valuable to our awakening and understanding/growth/improvement/expansion/enlightenment. Of course, if destiny smiles on you and you can learn everything you need to while also being blessed with some of your dreams and desires, all the better! Really enjoyed the optimism and faith in your response -- lately my faith in those things I always took for granted that I really believed in, and that I value most, was tested -- and I was surprised to realize that I needed to rebuild my belief that dreams can come true and miracles can and still do happen, and have faith and trust in the Universe again... Without those things, life has no magic or meaning! So I'm working on it! ( :
Hope life becomes a bit more of what you are striving for, Lady Grace. The journey we humans walk is filled with a myriad of emotions. Tis not easy staying the course.
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"Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls" ~~~~Khalil Gibran~~~~
Much prefer campfires and bonfires to the fireplace, but it is good for bringing a taste of that beauty, warmth, light into one's home.
Nostalgia, if I had to choose between everything that has come before -- all ideas, architecture fashion, etc. -- and the very narrow popular culture of the day (if that is what you meant). Tho if you mean the past or the present in a broader sense, I would choose the present, which includes all of the past and then adds the ideas and creations of the moment to it.
Being with a group of people in silence, or being with a group of people all talking with each other?
Now that is an excellent and very hard question Lady Grace!
Meditating with a group of people is a very sacred experience and that part of my spirituality is important to me, but i am also a very social being so can I have both? hmmmmmmmmm in truth you can have both because silence has come to mean for me a state of being still, not lack of noise. so if you are very present, and with group of people chattin or not, silence is there!
PS: For some interesting thoughts on duality, check out Georg Wilhelm Hegel, German Philosopher 1770-1831. It is wyrd that I woke up with the word "Hegel" in my mind, and found some fascinating stuff on Wikipedia a couple of day ago... Enjoy!
I will defintiely check him out Lady Grace, thank you for the reccommendation! and Yes indeed to your previous post...the irony being duality or non-duality is not the question in non duality! it could become qute the intllectual concept if you wnet into your mind over it...but the direct experience and realisation from within / without is beyond the words
Adyashanti is my favourite non-duaity 'teacher'
Depths......peeling away the layers until you find there is no centre... just infinite everywhere...
Thank you! I'll check out Adyashanti. I like your thought about peeling away the layers - tho sometimes it is fun to play in the layers, too! And fun to play with infinite everywhere, once we come out to play adn emerge from our layers it is a more direct form of play...
Pyramid, because I would think that the pentagram, representing all of the earth elements, would be the base of the pyramid, and the pyramid would draw from and incorporate that at its very foundation, as it rises up including all to the point of oneness...
Circel or spiral...oohh this is a tricky one Lady Grace!!
both are such organic and for me spiritual shapes that have meaning... infinity, oneness / energy....circle! no spiral...no circle...no...can i leave my mind unmade up?
Equatorial. I hate the cold, tho the pristine snow and aurora borealis is very beautiful. Love the lush forests and life and many cultures of the equator.
Just learned from Nic today that the flaming skull symbol is an old symbol from Africa that has been named "Baron Saturday," and represents a spirit of both the underworld and love -- a strange combination in Western culture's thinking.
Tibet.I've read a romantic mystery novel,which shows strong ethnic customs and beautiful scenery of Tibet,since then I have been fascinated by Tibet and Tibetan culture.lol