Travel Blog
“What you're experiencing now is some frustration, because you don't seem to have time outside of work time. And so, one of the meanings of sand is time. But the tornado is highlighting the abrasive aspect of time. And the overall message is that you're in a phase of life where something needs to be abraded; any form of selfishness: so that your work is pure service, but not permanently, because in this process, a lot of stuff that you don't need will be abraded away. Things that you thought of were part of you, thought were part of your identity, are really just aspects of family and social conditioning. So all the travel that you're doing makes sure that you don't have a lot of time for unessential aspects of who you are. At the same time, that travel provides you with an opportunity to see all kinds of slices of life. So those are slices of the tree. And there's a great value and a richness in that experience. It also helps you wear down and eliminate family and social conditioning, builds tolerance, develops compassion, and may also give you some ideas about choices you didn't know were available.”
I guess this is like an annoying question. But it's like, ok, what's the unessential part of me that I have to shed??
“It's all about likes and dislikes. The thing is, if you're truly to be in service, you need to show up and do what's needed. And that means becoming aware of it very quickly. And this is exactly why this is showing up in the truth corner. Because the problem with judgment is that it trips people up along the lines of their prejudices, their biases, their likes and dislikes. So you're not being allowed to settle into likes and dislikes, you have to be on the move, you have to be constantly present. For whatever circumstances you find. There may be things that revolt you and there may be things that excite you. And before you have a chance to do anything about those reactions, you're snatched away, and moved somewhere else. Now, you might think this is a sacrifice, that you're somehow having to give up your personal life in order to do this. But the clarity you achieve, will actually allow you to create an ideal supportive, personal life in a way that was never possible before.”
I, you know, I- I'm glad this is coming up. Because I know that I like pain, and I like it in the ways where you eat spicy food and when you get a tattoo and when someone hits you in the face because it makes you feel like you have nothing in your brain. And I think I have been so sick of having constant thoughts about, like, perceiving myself and being myself and ‘how should I be right now’ that actually, having nothing is so nice. And, like, maybe there are healthy and unhealthy ways to get that thing but I just don't know how to get away from the basic idea of ‘wow, isn’t it nice to be thoughtless?’
“The clarity that we're talking about is the right way to experience that thoughtful thoughtlessness. So you're being abraded to the point where it's gone. But don't identify yourself with it. Don't identify yourself with yearning to be thoughtless. That would be tragic.”
“The continent of Europe is so wide, mein Herr
Not only up and down, but side to side, mein Herr
I couldn't ever cross it if I tried, mein Herr
But I do what I can, inch by inch
Step by step, mile by mile
Man by man”