Try something different. For just one night, maybe tonight, go through the entire night using only candle light. Don’t turn on any artificial light. Grab a bunch of candles at the dollar store and bring your home to life in a new way. Carry a candle when going from room to room; ensure each room you are using is lit only with candles.
Come back and share your experience. What was it like to live for a moment in the past?
Talk a walk. Walk for 30 minutes to an hour. Yes, I know, that seems like a long time, but try it. Walk alone. Afterwards, come back and share some of the things that went through your mind. Did you find that you did more thinking than you usually do?
Truly each new book is as a ship that bears us away from the fixity of our limitations into the movement and splendor of life’s infinite ocean.” – Helen Keller
Imagine you are exposed to an incredibly horrific truth. You learn that 80% of the world’s population will be killed by intent. Would you expose that truth, and subject yourself to potential ridicule, and a life of ruin? Or would you live out the rest of your days in silence? Either way, why would you make your choice?
Imagine that how you got here, into the universe, was not through anything sentient.
How would/could/does this change the way you see your existence and the existence of this world?
Something right now enslaves you. It could be material, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, etc. If you could free yourself of this thing, how could or would it change your life?
My shackle: I have not learned yet how to completely free myself of materialism. I’ve made huge strides in many areas. I’ve minimized a host of things in my life. But a few vestiges remain that I wish to be free of. One such vestige is the cell phone. I want to be free of it, but I feel as though I will lose contact if I do. I often think, did we have this anxiety around losing contact with loved ones before cell phones existed? I continue to work on this. One day I will be free of it.
ha! gotcha! lol.
when i see you, we’ll make love in the snow together…
winter 2010
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