tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13537757.post3925475996322426841..comments2023-10-12T01:05:43.433-07:00Comments on the gallivanting monkey: a slow, sure trip up the metaphorical himalayasTina Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13982100203591837083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13537757.post-81339381594208312962008-07-06T22:08:00.000-07:002008-07-06T22:08:00.000-07:00Ok, I will not only cross post it, but I will also...Ok, I will not only cross post it, but I will also add a bunch of stuff to it too... :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13537757.post-30730238861283286912008-07-06T21:45:00.000-07:002008-07-06T21:45:00.000-07:00I am so very much loving what you are writing abou...I am so very much loving what you are writing about spirituality. I come out of a Unitarian Universalist background that is heavily flavored with Eastern Religious traditions. I always struggle with "Monkey Mind" with meditation as well... The scattered ADD-like yammerings of my brain trying to avoid settling down to do ONE SMALL THING instead of 15,000 little distracting things. <BR/><BR/>I also find The Divine a much more welcoming, embracing, compelling, all-encompassing concept than the name of God. God to me feels personified. Feels limiting in some way that the Divine encompasses. When I think of God, there feel like there are edges, finitude, and otherness to me. The Divine feels yummy and warm and feels like everything, feels like I could be a part of it. <BR/><BR/>I love the quote by (I think) Voltaire about God creating man in His own image, and man in kind, returned the favor. Naming the Holy Other "The Divine" instead, somehow feels like it transcends the limitations of our own visage and imagination. <BR/><BR/>My religious practice, such that it is these days, consists of always looking for The Divine, in all the corners of this crazy beautiful world. To actively seek it out and to find it in all of us and all that surrounds us. <BR/><BR/>(OK, now I have written so much, I will cross post this to my own blog)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com