In Bali, making an offering to the gods requires three things: holy water, smoke, and flowers.
They are wrapped in incadescent, almost neon green leaves, built in boxes of woven thatch and placed in entryways, near statues of ganesh adorned with a single flower petal, usually bright red, a vortex of welcoming infinity.
It is troubling to see so many people especially young people as having no duty to family, society and especially Spirit. People trivialize these lacks believing that family. society and Spirit are external entities that they can choose to disregard as irrelevant to the quality of their life experience. This is heartbreakingly short sighted.
Death anxiety is driving me crazy! Simply put, I need my soul friends. Its been a long time since I visited here. Life has been full of paradox, upheaval, settling... the wheel continues to turn.
You’ve read all the books, talked until you’re blue in the face to your therapist and friends, said the words “I forgive you” repeatedly and still… you can’t quite fully relinquish lingering remnants of resentment. Think about it. Think about one person to whom you most owe forgiveness to - an absent father, a mother who has disappointed you, an ex-lover that hurt you.
Recently I had someone attempt to rattle my spiritual infrastructure by trying to remind me that no matter what I do, feel or believe today, whoever I was in the past, is equally a part of myself. That apathy, degradation and the ability to be destructive towards myself or others was the rotten core of a spiritual house of cards...
Sometimes in life we forget that everything leading up to this moment, was perfect for the direction we want go. Lately I have had a sense of not being grounded, and not utilizing my time wisely. There have been so many signs, and synchronicity that I would brush aside that were trying to tell me to pause and realize. It got to a critical point tonight while I was at an art class.
It has been a full year since I took the leap from 'playing the game' to giving it all up in search for meaning. My mate would suggest that to search for meaning is to search for something we can never find. Of course, I insert this with my tongue buried deep in my cheek, since he usually offers that piece of advice in context... and not this one, as a matter of fact.
Hey folks, I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm looking for some practices/rituals/habits that may help my growth. They can range from the smallest thing I do during the day, to a yearly or monthly ritual. I have a few already, but I am open to any suggestions, changes, or comments.
As of now, I'm a very disorganized person, and I finally took some time to sit down and try to actively set some priorities and goals to continue my personal growth through the summer. I made this list for my own personal reminding, but I figured it would make a good topic for evolver, as we are all here to...well, evolve.
Sustainability. A hot word in a hot melting pot currently. Arguably, a subjective word indeed. The things one could consider sustainable are often attached to individually ideal scenarios. The puzzle is still coming together folks.
Remember, Evolver is a tool for change. Its not change itself.
Hopefully, at some point, we will outgrow Evolver.
Let's remember why we are all here. We desire change, and we feel that we need to come together to create it. That is what Evolver is for. It is a place to come together, in our minds and our hearts.
I own my body, my mind, my being about as much as I own anything else.
Everything I am flows from outside of me. In the same way that I should respect and care for the air that I breathe, the land that feeds me, and the water I drink, I should care for my body, my mind and my heart.
I came across an article in the New York Times (Your Phone Is Locked. Just Drive. By David Pogue) that elucidates the up-and-coming applications that are being developed to prevent cell phones from being used by drivers.
In the quest for truth, I find, more questions are made than answered. Almost as if the universe itself is trying to make it as hard as possible for personal development. The farther I travel along my own personal path of understanding one thing seems very clear, every question I answer, the more fractalized the information becomes, like some type of mutating weed.
You empty yourself out
letting go
of everything you thought you were
or part thereof
and what remains?
what is there?
fears
dissolve
and the sense of self
that claimed you
engaged you
defined you
and probably caged you.
did you choose to let go
or was it something that was stripped away
by circumstance
divorce, loss of work, loss of all, loss of...
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
