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Here’s a animate look at some of the best spiritual travel pieces from the Matador Community.
Sometimes, you guys just recite it better than we do.
Ok, I would go so far as to speech you “often” say it better than us, because your voice is completely authentic when writing upon your Matador blog. Your experiences aren’t edited for satisfy, length, or need to get a certain point across. You are just elocution your truth.
In the spirit (ha ha) of celebrating this authenticity, we’ve (specifically, the extraordinary Eileen Smith and Julie Schwietert) been searching end the common blogs in favor of the most poignant writing and declaration. Trust us, there is a lot of great content there, so the job isn’t easy. And this will not exist the only time we put together a collection.
But for now, check out these five fantastic pieces that exemplify the search for the sacred and profound:
1. Looking for the Sacred, Finding the Profane, David Defranza
Sometimes, we believe we are seeking for something intangible and beyond war of words, and in lieu we find that which is normal or everyday. Interestingly enough, as David Defranza points out, memories of “the aroma of snow and of people, shabby blankets and hot tea” of Mount Kailash in the Himalayas is in which degree in order true beauty is cast.
2. What it means: Jerusalem in 100 words, Alyssa C. Martino
How are we awakened (or reawakened) by place? And does it always happen in the moment, or does it sometimes be in favor of years in the sight of we to the full feel the impinging? Alyssa C. Martino ponders the meaning of her trip to the Wailing Wall:
Me, I be able to’t even revoke what I wrote on that note in the crevice; I wish I could reclaim that prayer, make it count, make it matter, rewrite it like this narrative of stubbornness.
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3. I Just Need to Get Out, C-Sunshine
Many of us at Matador carry the “dream” to take over and leave it all behind, minus a backpack, a good utility knife, and enough pesos to be of advantage it to unchartered territory.
C-Sunshine writes of her sorrow over her mother’s death when she was only 15, and in what state the only time she has felt alive since is when she is traveling.
She desperately seeks to leave her world that includes a great job, wonderful roommates and loving boyfriend, in order to capture on the wildness of freedom:
I wake up everyday go about your business to act, school, and make love to my boyfriend, but I can’t wait to extend home and fall asleep making a wish that I won’face to face have to wake up and achieve it again the next day…I dream of leaving, every moment.
4. An Incredibly Deep Translation Error, Jgbrandt
What is the power found in a simple tongue mistake? It efficiency make you think about who you are in relationship with others. During a writing exercise in a class he taught abroad, Jgbrandt’s student wrote, “My friend and I were fighting this week because we don’t have knowledge of ourselves.” True, he probably meant to write “don’t have understanding each other”, but the lesson of his mistake is that we fight based more on our own misunderstood feelings than what others do.
As Jgbrandt notes, “that’s the nice thing about travel. It helps you hear yourself, and your world around you, a bit more truthfully.”
5. Life at Vimutti Buddhist Monastery, Turner Wright
Behold the meditative power of the run. Beyond caretaking duties at a Buddhist monastery in New Zealand, Turner Wright connects spiritualism to exercise, weeding to living in the present, and understanding how Monks can live and actual performance the Middle Way. Here’s a moving thought that besides serves as a nice little reminder:
Mindfulness can be achieved by focusing on anything in the present: the profound of your breath moving in and out of the lungs, the chirping of birds in the distance, even the subtle development of painful tension in those reliable legs.
What are some of your pet spiritual pieces from the Community? Share them below!
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