Aug 15 2008
Oriah Mountain Dreamer quote
“It does not interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream your heart’s longing.
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Jul 21 2008
Choices
One of my favourite philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard, wrote about choice. He said that most people live their lives like drunken peasants on a cart, letting the horse wander where it will. They make no real choices in their lives. For Kierkegaard, the process of becoming a realised, authentic self is the act of choosing to base one’s life on one principle, and then letting other choices follow on from that. He wrote about “stages on life’s way”, and gave different examples of what one could base one’s life on.
Jun 24 2008
The Death Lodge
A couple of days ago Moongazy lent me a copy of a handbook called The Wilderness Quest; For Vision and Self-healing by Dr Stephen Foster and Meredith Little. It’s an extraordinary little book, quite different from any “self help” or “spiritual” books I’ve flicked through before. It takes the reader, in very concrete and specific steps, through the preparation for a Vision Quest. None of the usual vagueness that one finds in most spiritual advice.
I was very moved by a section called The Death Lodge. Here it is… Continue Reading »
