"Remember, whatever your religion may be, most of the world disagrees with you." Rob Brezsny, Pronoia
A divine day
So I just got home from one road trip, utah, sedona, hmmm, rested for a day then I find myself packing up for what I will say was divine timming for sure. Now if you knew just how far I had to go for this shot you'd understand. Didn't know exactly what I'd see, or even what the weather was like. By the time I got to this spot I only had roughly a minute before the storm hit again, lol. Talk about a small window huh. I'll take it and I surely did, lol. So where in the world did Tommy go to? http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/4970085081_9136682370_b.jpg
By the way Renee
You don't need money to take adventures either. I have a friend who has made several trips to sedona, roughly 1700 miles from here, with little or no money in his pocket to start out. :) I know how he does it, because I can tap right into his guidance. One of my gifts from years ago.
Today
Well today I stepped more fully onto yet another path, but what I did was not that important as what happened. This other stone I stepped upon took me deeper into that state I love so well. I think some call it the walking meditation.
While there maybe an air of truth to all being divine, there are many who are living in disconnect mode, yes the infamous free will mode, lol. I'm thinking god has a sense of humor as I watched this woman who was standing next to me. She must have repeated herself a dozen times to the man waiting on us, as if he didn't hear her the first time, lol.
I just simply stood there and was quite amuzed by her toxic behavior. Ahh, but aside from that I love those spontaneous journeys to where ever my heart pulls me to. What a beautiful day to go out and play.
Tommy!
I think this is all so great. :) What you are touching on in your own unique is so profound to me, (too). I am sensing this building, this sort of foundation going on in so many things I am seeing in all facets of Life right now. Everywhere I go I see the awareness growing.
The most fascinating thing to me is how its coming in at all these different angles. I often am blown away that I realize all 6 billion of us on this planet have these unique aspects built up around the limitations of this experience on Earth! I see that not one of us will completely identify 100% with each other because we are all so unique and that is definitely and infinitely Divine!!! I'm awed every time my mind remembers this. Its what draws us together and yet keeps our individuality and why we cannot ever follow someone else if we are to be our true self. Who else could create such beautiful diversity 6 billion strong and thats not even including all the plant life, animals and other "stuff"? And yet its replicated in the cells of our bodies, each one its own unique masterpiece of divinity and also in our solar system and the universe. Its just amazing!
I hope one day I can jump up and drive 500 miles or fly around the world to chase my visions down and create them! I think that is so inspiring to me and motivating to keep letting go and keep letting it in.
Thank You!
Love,
Renee
Renee
Yes I do comprehend the meaning of your path photo. At each level of awareness we don't always see the bigger picture. So in essence I won't bother to explain my meaning regarding being on the wrong path. It was simply an awareness I had, which will unfold as time goes on.
I know that no matter where this leads, the photography will always be a part of that. I think, who else in their right mind ( pun intended) would drive 500 miles one way for a few shots in the UP of michigan, lol, and in the middle of a storm to boot. It had nothing to do with the mind, but everything to do with the heart.
My natural childlike curiosity is at the core of leading me back to the path of a healer. I can say this, from that point in the past to now, my understanding has changed regarding the definition of that term, which has often been distorted by the spiritual community.
Its simply just another stepping stone. The same is true of all the teachers I've encountered along the way. Part of my path involved comming to my own conclusions, which I know are quite different than anyone I've met to this point. Many of the teachings I've encountered along the way I've already examined and can simply say that spirituality was never intended to be this complicated, that is a human trait, which is not purely divine.
At some point I may expand on that ideal but for now I will simply keep moving forward. Right now in my life I feel as if I have entered the eye of the hurricane, lol. The credit for which I can simply give whole heartedly to the divine.
the path
I have a picture I made as a greeting card call the path! I just took it a few weeks ago and made it black and white, but the irony is, it isn't! LOL You can check it out on here, its the last one on the 2nd page: http://www.zazzle.com/reneenavi*
I'm not sure if I'm miss reading what you're saying but I wanted to add that we are never on the wrong path. We are just experimenting with things for as far as we want to go with it before we are led another way. It makes me think a lot of how Lola said she made paintings for 2 years never knowing what she was going to do with them since they weren't really selling at the time. This comforts me a great deal, and the past few days has been really solidifying that everything I am doing right now is right. If you've read my other posts, what I am doing right now doesn't seem to have much of anything to do with where I want to be. And that was really frustrating me a lot. I also kept saying I have ADD and people pointing out a lot that I can't stay focused and then I'd admit how scattered I am. But deeper inside of me I realize I am learning to follow my heart and it is hella fun to be working on this and that all over the place. I prefer it. Its to me, like a messy art room where an artist has been painting for awhile and their creative ideas are splashed all over the place while they sit in front of a masterpiece on their canvas. I also prefer staying up super late at night when this half of the hemisphere is more quiet and can't wait until I move so I can stay up without disturbing people! In the past 6 months I've changed "professions" on a rotating basis from greeting cards, to photographer to musician to videographer to greeting cards to photographer, to writer! LMAO. I love all these things. So then I recalled two memories from childhood. One when I was really little I said I was going to be just like the Beatles and sing and make music that had my own style but was very diversified and with a message. Then in high school I said I wanted to be just like Sarah McLachlan and write my own words, design my own cover jackets and sing! When I remember these things I realized I want to use all my creative talents collectively to express what I see. So I don't have any one masterpiece in any of my areas of interest but i do believe I am going to call each one a color and eventually paint a picture with all of them together in my canvas of life.
As for being a healer, I was told I am writer and a healer by a psychic. After 5 years of searching since 2005, I went through believing that I'd be working with alternative medicines and organic food, to believing I would be coaching to believing I would be doing energy treatments with Reiki. To now I see the real healing is here in our core as Lola teaches. And that is evolving into an artistic message for me. I've been having people come forward and tell me how much I've impacted their lives one way or another and it still sort of strikes me as weird I could have that much affect on people even though its what I've always wanted in a very genuine way. You have that affect on people as well!
So I can see we're all evolving our talents to use for healing others. My guess, by seeing your photography is that you really love it and its never been wrong. Its probably going to play out somehow in all the things you do! Your photography is amazing! It will be fun to see how you eventually work it all out together. :)
Thanks for helping me reflect on myself as well! :)
Love,
Renee
The realization
I came to the conclusion after taking my trip that I'm on the wrong path. No need to go into great detail about what that entails or where it will lead as I wouldn't want to inadvertently insult anyone.
One of the things that came to me was the path of a healer. Yes I've seen it all to this point and I can say there's no one ( at least I thought until recently) who can claim permanent changes. And yet I thought about that subject only because it came up for me many years ago, and I diverted from it. I did experiment with several people and do you know something I realized, that even though years have passed since I did these experiments, the changes were permanent in the individuals I worked with.
I don't know what it involves or how it will all play out but I am going to spend some time reorienting my own purpose.