Thoughts on Spirituality

Why is it that we suffer today? Why is it that the deepest part of our soul aches in detachment? Our parched minds crawl desperately towards a quenching of which we know no fulfillment.

But the answer has existed below our feet since the moment of our parturition. The irony of our existence is that we yearn to detach. To remove ourselves. To create technology that brightens our world and brings us entertainment. But what if the thing that brought us joy was not detachment but connection. Realigning our relationship to the world and our part in its creation. Turn off the lights and bathe in silent lumination of the stars. Recognize our inescapable negligence as a conglomeration of atoms on this place we call earth.

You are dust and to dust you shall return. A phrase not a reminder of our inevitable death but of our innate connection as flesh on a planet of conjoined relationships which consummated in the creation of you. We are not just humans but the product of recycled earth from millennia of life. We can only be what we have available to us. The earth has risen to provide us with life so how can we respect that beautiful cycle more and more each day. It is not our duty just to live but to animate the cycle of life with our respect for its essence. Expel the bounds of society and forge a reality of respect for yourself, the earth that has given you life, and those around you that thirst for your energy and insight.

I am certain that our society’s lack of spiritual connection to the Earth is a large player in our mental health crisis. We create technology to keep us inside, to lessen our pain, to dull life’s sensations. Don’t get me wrong, the curing of disease and sustaining of life is a beautiful thing. What puts a bad taste in my mouth are the tools we use to alter our experience on earth. We trade our freedom for servitude to mechanisms which bear only false antidotes. We sever our connection to life. We remove ourselves from the prospect of pain. We rid ourselves of many sensations that bring us closer to the present moment. I don’t know about you, but I struggle with thinking too much, considering too many options, and debating each movement I make. I always have. And I’ve found the things that re immerse me in joy are the small moments that bring awareness to my physicality and experience as a living breathing human. We shape our experience of the world beyond our mind. What’s your device of evasion?