Preparing and Centering

Though it's important to prepare for the future, it's equally important to center oneself for right now. I find if I just walk outside of my home or hotel or wherever I am and look at the sky and plants and people or animals or birds in the morning when I wake up it helps to make me real and to center me. Being indoors often makes people "surrealistic" in their lives. When you think being inside a building or home is "Real" then this creates confusion often in people.

Whenever people build things you sort of have to see them as artworks at best and at worse things that kill people's souls at worse.

So, whenever you can go to the wilderness to regroup and to renew your energies for the future.

I find that cities  "Distract" people from the truth of life by titillating them in various directions. But, is this useful to one's sanity ongoing?

Each person is different in their answers to this question but for myself sanity is in nature not in cities. I might distract myself from my problems by watching a movie or going to a play or restaurant but I find that restaurants mostly make me uncomfortable in that I have to sit there when I might want to be doing something else like looking at the sky or rain coming down or the sun or a sunset over the Pacific ocean where I live on the northern California coast.

For example, I had a really amazing experience last night near sundown. I went down to the snorkeling beach at the resort I'm staying at for the first time this visit and noticed it was raining in the distance. Then as I got into the water it was much cooler than I expected for which I was grateful. Then a little wispy cloud that amounted to nothing my wife pointed out was raining out of it which really couldn't happen where I live in California. Then the sunset which was incredibly beautiful was playing through the impossible rain coming down out of the little wispy cloud that was doing things that couldn't happen on the California coast. I was amazed by all of this and realized this one experience of 1 hour until sunset made my entire visit to this particular island a completely useful and spiritually enlightening experience that I will never forget the rest of my life.

Which is likely why so many of us pay so much to come to places like this to have these magical experiences in Hawaii sometimes on a daily basis.

By God's Grace