Every act is sacred... and it becomes even more so when WE realize it. Our spiritual and mundane lives are one and the same. They are not separate from one another.
Reminds me of this chant:
Every step I take is a healing step healing, healing, healing the land
Every step I take is a sacred step healing, healing, my body.
Yes, yes and yes. I listen to pagans who have a lot of free time to devote to their spirituality talk about daily meditation and extensive rituals. Meh. I'm just trying to keep up with the day-to-day tasks of working, tending to my marriage and running a household. I'm lucky if I get a couple of minutes to sit quietly and find my center when it's been a rough day.
Proper rituals tend to be quick and basic. Most devotional practices are now centered around cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening, etc... And you're right, there aren't many resources for this.
I found this quote a while back, I think it is dead on:
"Eliphas Levi defines the Great Work like this: '[It] is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.' I don't think you are going to accomplish that unless you situate it within the reality of your life. I don't see how a person might gain greater control of their faculties and future, or emancipate their will, if that process isn't enacted right here on Earth in the context of what is actually happening to them in their life." -- Gypsy LanternThis has been really meaningful to me as I firmly feel that if "spiritual development" means anything to me, it means living a life well lived (and discovering what that means to me). And it all takes place in my life as it is now and with all the things in it
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Everyone told me the same thing: you must find more time.
Fheh. They're wrong. There will never be enough time. And once there are babies, the time you have now will seem amazingly open.
One of the reasons for spending a few years focused obsessively on religion & magic is to build an internal identity that doesn't loose connections to it during the long stretch of life where most of your time will be taken up with some degree or other of outwardly-focused work.
there aren’t many resources about how to do this wellPart of that is because much magical & religious history was written by *middle-aged, upper-class men* who had leisure time (because their wives & servants did all the actual work). And part is because the juggling act is very personal; how to integrate spirituality & magic into job-spouse-kids-other family is always individual
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Reminds me of this chant:
Every step I take is a healing step
healing, healing, healing the land
Every step I take is a sacred step
healing, healing, my body.
With Love,
S~
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Proper rituals tend to be quick and basic. Most devotional practices are now centered around cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening, etc... And you're right, there aren't many resources for this.
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"Eliphas Levi defines the Great Work like this: '[It] is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.' I don't think you are going to accomplish that unless you situate it within the reality of your life. I don't see how a person might gain greater control of their faculties and future, or emancipate their will, if that process isn't enacted right here on Earth in the context of what is actually happening to them in their life." -- Gypsy LanternThis has been really meaningful to me as I firmly feel that if "spiritual development" means anything to me, it means living a life well lived (and discovering what that means to me). And it all takes place in my life as it is now and with all the things in it ( ... )
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Fheh. They're wrong. There will never be enough time. And once there are babies, the time you have now will seem amazingly open.
One of the reasons for spending a few years focused obsessively on religion & magic is to build an internal identity that doesn't loose connections to it during the long stretch of life where most of your time will be taken up with some degree or other of outwardly-focused work.
there aren’t many resources about how to do this wellPart of that is because much magical & religious history was written by *middle-aged, upper-class men* who had leisure time (because their wives & servants did all the actual work). And part is because the juggling act is very personal; how to integrate spirituality & magic into job-spouse-kids-other family is always individual ( ... )
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