When I left Green Lake my family thought I was crazy for embarking on such an adventure alone. A young lady traveling alone, not such a good idea they thought. I told them I wasn't going to be alone, that I'd be with friends that I simply just hadn't met yet. Call me crazy but I had faith that my path would cross with other wandering souls that would turn out to be good and descent human beings. And alas, I was correct. I have met some of the finest creatures this planet has allowed to exist and am happy to call them my friends- some I met in passing and some I will keep in contact with for the rest of my life. Nonetheless, they all had something to teach me, something to share, something to help me with and vice versa- and for that I am grateful beyond expression. I have been blessed beyond belief- not that I didn't know that for feel that already- however this trip as reinforced it. My life is full of incredibly wonderful and good-hearted folk; not just my family, mi enamorado (the one that I am in love with, Michael Roy Curran), his family and friends but also nomads. Wanderers. People searching for something. Meaning perhaps. Their true purpose. A love. Inspiration. Motivation. A means of making this world a better place.
They are people with hearts of gold, yet all they are missing is direction. Not so much as where to go but what to do with all of this goodness that they know is inside them. People ready and able to make wonders happen, ready to be the change they want to see. However the change they want to see is so emmense, so huge....that perhaps they are discouraged as to how to go about it. So they wander. And they get by. Happy and content are they but deep inside there is a yearning for something more. They (myself included) live to find that light they know exists. The light in this seemingly dark and chaotic world we find ourselves in. We've seen it, but why doesn't it stay? How can we make it permanent? What do we need to make the transition to a life- a world full of light?
Perhaps it is so simple that we overlook it. But I suppose first we must become better at acknowledging the light around us. Light comes from the sun. This light feeds the plants that feed us and the animals around us. In Spanish they call this, la gran naturaleza. Great nature, more or less. So when we get down to it, we ourselves are full of light in a literal and spiritual sense. But let's be honest, it is taken for granted- the sun, this light that feeds the greenness around us that in turn feeds us and allows for our very existance. However, and I speak from experience- when we begin to acknowledge and become conscious of it, this light- la gran naturaleza, slowly but surely this energy becomes stronger and stronger and more and more evident within our daily lives.
With that said, I will follow this post with some simple ways to reconnect with the light. Things/practices/exercises to help feel the light, this universal energy within and around you. Just remember, you ARE the light. :)
Namaste. (the light within me honors the light within you) Paz y AMOR de EcuaDOR.
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