(01-28-2010, 05:17 AM)ayadew Wrote: Your lifestyle is alike to mine although I study at university + does not travel. I rather travel in my own imagination! learning visualization
As you style yourself as non-materialistic I do wonder how you find the funds needed to travel. Well, money is just one way a possibility may come, and if you've thrown yourself out into faith and trust it to guide you successfully then I suppose everything is possible. Wealth is indeed the ability to do whatever you want to do when you want to do it, regardless of how this is practically done.
The specific activities you should do is to act on your excitement; to do what you feel most strongly for. This you seem to do already though.
I present to you the idea that all paths are optimal.. including worrying about harvest, promoting self aggrandizement and materialism.
I appreciate your feedback brother.
As for the money question, it is a paradox. The less I worried about accumulating the easier it comes to me. It is an interesting situation indeed. To truly disconnect from materialism makes you remarkably, I hate to say the word, "powerful" on what once enslaved you. I am at a loss so I try to spend money on meaningful pursuits.
The other paradox is that my detachment enables me to handle attachments more efficiently. I feel a great responsibility to use my gifts in the service of others although I am not yet ready to re-join "the game" for I foresee that I will cause much harm if I do not learn to control my emotions (too much anger, too much pain).
I am remarkably flawed yet blessed. Sometimes I wish I was just "normal."