Comments on: Snapshot of Lost Valley http://blog.nomadicscribe.net/archives/166 Traveling the world, writing it down. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dad http://blog.nomadicscribe.net/archives/166#comment-11 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:52:28 +0000 http://blog.nomadicscribe.net/archives/166#comment-11 Your physical journey has become a journey of the soul and the spirit. The essence of a journey is that we leave a familiar place that we know and where we are known, surrounded by people that love and support us, and we go out into the void. You can feed and nurture the physical body, but the absence of the social and spiritual support network is both the nadir and the zenith for a spiritual journey inwards. We are all ultimately alone. We live in the inner world inside our own bodies and minds. As we grow up we learn socialization so that we can stroke other people, and in turn have them stroke us. We learn to connect with other people, and form co-dependent relationships . Our life’s impressions shape the way we feel about ourselves and the world we live in, both internally and externally. Our behavior provides those impressions for other people. Your physical journey will conclude. Perhaps you will return to the place you started from, and perhaps you will settle in a new community. Even when you return to Austin, it will not be the same place, because you and your friends have been on separate journeys, and you have not been with them, nor them with you. Your spiritual journey will continue beyond your physical journey. Out of your spiritual journey you will find new facets of yourself, new strengths, new priorities, a new understanding. I love you and I am always here for you. Dad Your physical journey has become a journey of the soul and the spirit. The essence of a journey is that we leave a familiar place that we know and where we are known, surrounded by people that love and support us, and we go out into the void. You can feed and nurture the physical body, but the absence of the social and spiritual support network is both the nadir and the zenith for a spiritual journey inwards.

We are all ultimately alone. We live in the inner world inside our own bodies and minds. As we grow up we learn socialization so that we can stroke other people, and in turn have them stroke us. We learn to connect with other people, and form co-dependent relationships . Our life’s impressions shape the way we feel about ourselves and the world we live in, both internally and externally. Our behavior provides those impressions for other people.

Your physical journey will conclude. Perhaps you will return to the place you started from, and perhaps you will settle in a new community. Even when you return to Austin, it will not be the same place, because you and your friends have been on separate journeys, and you have not been with them, nor them with you. Your spiritual journey will continue beyond your physical journey. Out of your spiritual journey you will find new facets of yourself, new strengths, new priorities, a new understanding.

I love you and I am always here for you.

Dad

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