WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF DISCERNMENT
+ To base a
religious philosophy on questions instead of answers increases the likelihood
of wonder and amazement.
-- Lawrence Kushner
+ Be patient toward
all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be
able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions
now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some
distant day into the answer.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
+ What is required
of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult
are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we
must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this
background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they
are.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
+ Sell your
cleverness and buy bewilderment.
-- Rumi
+ Making a Vision Quest is a Native American tradition
which has inspired many of us in recent decades. Elders teach their adolescents that such a
quest is a necessary passage into adulthood.
This wisely teaches adolescents to find answers within themselves even
though this may be much more difficult than getting answers from others.
Perhaps all of life can be viewed as a Vision Quest since
we always have plenty more to learn and many changes to go through on this
amazing journey. Isn’t it
wonderful?
+ Spirituality & Practice offers
many resources on the
spiritual practice of Questing and a Twelves
Gallery on Questing. The meme above
comes from that gallery.
+ Spirituality & Practice offers 37 Spiritual Practices with an abundance of ideas and resources for this essential practice. Some of my favorites are Attention, Being Present, Connections, Enthusiasm, Imagination, Listening, Meaning, Openness, Questing, Reverence, Silence, Transformation and Vision. Pick one or 2 and see where you are led as you continue to discern your purpose, your path, your mission, your next step.
+ I have work to do on my Discernment page. Maybe you can help. Send an email with the subject “Discernment”
to John@abundancetrek.com.
+ You can always find a link to any of the
Spiritual Explorations posts by going to http://abundancetrek.com/sepostsaccess.html
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