I just read a Witchvox article which began by saying that one's mundane life must be in order before one's spiritual life can follow. Perhaps it's a commonly distributed bit of advice.
I'm trying to do things in reverse. I had assumed that my mundane life being out of whack was just a symptom of the underlying issue, and that getting my spiritual and emotional affairs in order would translate into a better, more organized and calm daily life by providing an anchor of sorts.
What do you think?
I don't think they are separate. I don't think there is a mundane life and a spiritual life...you either have a life where you find the divine in the mundane and the mundane in the divine, or you don't. Personally, I think assuming they are separate and one comes before the other is courting imbalance.
“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom
“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett
Pagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
Spirituality is not all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes just too much damn emotion on 'life lessons'. I'd like a year of being dumb. Thank you.
Satan is my spirit animal
I concur with thal, there. They both coincide with one another: the mundane and spiritual worlds. Being able to have and keep balance in your life is something that a spiritual person is able to do, even if they live a lay life style. Kind of the more balanced the inside the more balanced becomes the outside.
I'm confused by your response. If they each need equal tending, how then does a balanced inside equate to a balanced outside?Originally Posted by blue_coyote
When someone is spiritually fighting with themselves, they tend to be a mess on the outside. How can you have a clean floor if you are constantly throwing spiritual crumbs on it? Something like that. Only less Yoda like.
Satan is my spirit animal
There's no right or wrong answer - each individual has to find their own balance.
For me, it was the realization that I don't need to be out in the woods to feel spiritual. I don't even like the Great Outdoors unless there is a hotel with a bar, good restaurant & hot running water nearby. Once I learned that a city could be my personal sacred space, it cleared up a lot of time I had spent looking for time when I could 'get away from it all'. My tapwater is sacred, the food in my fridge is sacred and I'm sacred. When I need to reconnect, I take a hot shower or go out in my backyard & wave to the Moon, or even just close my eyes and focus on my breathing for a few minutes.
But that's what works for me - you've got to listen to yourself and find what works for you.
The forum member formerly known as perzephone. Or Perze. I've shed a skin.
nice one !you've got to listen to yourself and find what works for you.
that works for me too...the spiritual side of things works fine...the mundane side...blimey how many psychologists have you on hand....balance is something that every one of us has to find for ourselves
there is no right and no wrong balance....just what works
Which is more important? (mundane Life vs. Spiritual Life)
Yes.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
I think the mundane has to be in order for the spiritual to work. Consider that no matter how much the spiritual feeds your body it will die unless the mundane body is feed as well. Yet if you do not have the means to feed the mundane then the body can not be feed. So you have to have the means to obtain food to feed the body. That means a job or whatever but the mundane has to be in balance and working before you can dedicate the time and energy to the spiritual.
Sort of like social development I suppose. Artistic endeavors didn't develop until basic mundane needs were filled. Once you had a balance or surplus then you could dedicate the time to the other. Well unless you were of the religious class and others provided to you which not to many of us have today.
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