Does your life have meaning? If not, the first order of business in any holistic approach is to define in your own heart the things that have true validity to such a concept. What I am saying is simply that between God and Earth are certain inalienable ties that give worth to the way we approach our own life view--primal--
If you listen to your belly so to speak (that deep gut feeling when you pull the veneer off the facades we put up to power our mojo), you tap into that commonality that binds all sentient energy to the experience that is universal to our existence.
In a nutshell what I am saying is first and foremost we must feel we are doing something significant, and even more so, be engaged in an endeavor somewhat beyond ourselves so as to touch with that commonality. One needing to go past the primordial insticts of self on into the aspects of tribe.
So I left the wilderness to try and find it back in my own life (although I didn't realize the reason fully at the time). For how is one to know that common cause when living 33 years on a solo trail (even if I wasn't always alone). I can attest to the utter hopelessness one feels when so far away from humanity within their own head, dreams goals and lifestyle that it is only until after it's over that you realize the path you'd chosen was indeed an unwitting vision quest--
Don't get me wrong--I still believe one should get alone often and retreat to God's Garden for sorting one's thoughts, (in fact, take your family and live there if you can). But, for me I had to move on and attempt to make what I have had the privilege to live through these decades count for something, or else it would just all be a sin. Nothing horribly overt, mind you, but always so obsessively centered toward my first one true vision, that I became known to all that crossed my path or sword (the latter figuratively-well mostly at least)--and was not to be trifled with on either count--
Yet now the only light that I see is to share what I have found to be true. I hope you find it useful, Thanks, W.J. Lynus O'Brien [ bio ]
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