Is there any way the journey through the desert can be avoided?
2007-08-23 08:58:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some great answers!
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2007-08-23 13:55:46 · update #1
Sunman are you 1/7 coyote to? Trying to get me to answer my own question? It is only right you know, that we should answer to ourselves. He, he. *sip*
2007-08-23 14:12:23 · update #2
He, he. *sip*
2007-08-24 07:16:58 · update #3
If we avoid it, we miss out on such an important experience toward personal growth and awareness. The desert is about humility; it is about learning to live without; it is about doing more with less; it is about finding the truth of our soul so that we might come back from it sated, our cups filled to overflowing.
Unless we empty ourselves completely, how will we ever reach that place where we will be filled up?
2007-08-23 13:42:16 · answer #1 · answered by Shihan 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the desert symbolizes stripping ourselves of all our material and worldly comforts, and even needs, like water and food. We are more closely aligned with our true selves, our spiritual selves, because we are not distracted by all the clutter of our comfortable everyday lives. In the desert we can find out who we are and listen to that voice, our divine voice, concerning our lives and the directions we need to take. It can be avoided, people do it every day with addictions such as comfort, food, drugs, anything to quiet the din of the world they live in. The better question, I believe, would be "should" we avoid it?
2007-08-23 23:13:05 · answer #2 · answered by NRPeace 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"The desert, being an unwanted place, may very well be the last defense of life against nonlife. For in the lush and moist and wanted areas of the world, life pyramids against itself until it allies with the enemy nonlife."
--John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
2007-08-23 16:03:04 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, to feel ones flesh scorch and crack, is to give one ultimate enjoyment in the present life on the return.
The mountains will be brought low, and paths will be made straight in the desert.
2007-08-23 16:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We certainly do try, don't we?
Percieving it as an uncomfortable journey.....
Struggle not, release into the deserts blowing landscape, the alterations of state.
AS she changes so constantly, so do we.
When one walks upon the land, as guide. Trans-formation is all around. Stepping closer into our divine origins.
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2007-08-23 17:23:02 · answer #5 · answered by shakalahar 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is like Plato's cave. You only leave it, or enter the desert by choice.
2007-08-23 16:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but take plenty of water and sunscreen so you will be fine.
Or, perhaps always ask first "Does this horse have a name?"
2007-08-23 16:33:32 · answer #7 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait a few centuries and hope it turns into a forest?
2007-08-23 16:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all I have to traverse this horrible desert.
2007-08-24 20:49:01 · answer #9 · answered by Shripathi Krishna Acharya 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No
Because it's good to get out of the rain
2007-08-23 16:04:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋