If I were to be any sort of spiritual teacher, the one I'd find most honoring would be a master on the ordeal path.

Though my definition of an ordeal is broader than the one at the article linked. A quick sketch of my definition would be: an ordeal is something that frightens or challenges you in a real, meaningful way, which you go through ( Read more... )

Couldn't resist having a stab at some giftart. tekuryuu, these are for you.

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I think I have a pretty nifty worldview. It's not infallible, but it can shift and change if there's cause to. I like it; it's worked for me this far and continues to work for me, and it's fun and enriching and lets me be who I want to be. But, at the same time, I realize that it wouldn't work for others; incompatible natures, and all that jazz ( Read more... )

It's that time again: the ol' brain needs to be cleaned out, because there are a bunch of notionbits floating around, inchoate or half-formed, and they don't seem to be resolving into complete, coherent LJ posts anytime soon. So. Scattershot.

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You know, I feel like my heart is full to bursting, but it doesn't burst--it's like one long inhale that passes capacity and keeps on breathing in, so that there's a vital rising pressure in my chest. This goes beyond notions conjured by the word "loved"--and I've felt this way once before, but in that time I curled around the feeling and kept it ( Read more... )

I've known people so entranced by their internal worlds that those worlds were more real to them than this World Conrete. I've seen people who can at a whim or as a facet of their own nature submerge themself in those worlds and those stories so that "suspension of disbelief" is a ludicrous term--there is no such thing as disbelief and no such ( Read more... )