How do we–the Sensitives, the Intuitives, the New-Agers, Consciousness-Seekers– punctuate our life? I tell you what: Sometimes this multidimensional, multisensory journey through life is downright tiring! Maybe that’s why the wise man (was it Buddha?) said, “After enlightement, chop wood and carry water.” I’d say, “After enlightement, take a bath and have some tea.”
Lately, I’ve become very restless. As I went deeper into this, I realized it’s because I’m addicted to the high my inner world elicits: My dreams, my revelations, intuitions and spiritual longings, astral journeys. The ordinariness (which I am tuning into and discovering has a delicious bliss of its own) is seducing me, though. The seemingly mundane tasks of washing dishes, doing the laundry, cooking a meal, farting around the internet, cultivating patience around my goals or keeping a small commitment to self-care are beginning to feel like blessings between the times when I am hit with a revelation or faced with the next milestones of my soul-growth. I’ve resented these in the past. I found them to be distracting. I only imagined bliss (and chased it) in a world devoid of every-day life. Now I see that they serve to almost calm the nervous system down, and when these moments come I welcome them with open arms and stay in awareness of a sensual, earthy existance trusting that my inner world is there, waiting.
How do we punctuate our life, then? Embrace the ordinariness of it. Celebrate the senses. Welcome the rythm of time. Temper the passions for a new world with appreciation for the structures which will actually bring it to life.
B r e a t h e. We are both spirit and body.
