Soul Culture & 5 things
Drawing closer to desire with soul culture
Words feel ceaseless.
Tumbling observations of bric-a-brac.
Never-ending opinions of nothing and infinity.
Only silencing the verbal silage aids in calming the overwhelming symphony- silence slowing the incoming tide- stillness, freeing the heart to think upon the whispered words- words that rise up from the source found within.
The world has become too noisy, sometimes even the birds overwhelm my senses. When I reach this breaking point, when nature does not soothe, this is when I know it’s time to cease. I must still myself just enough that I can feel the earth below me, notice the shift of the wind, allow for my heartbeat to be my only companion. I must find stillness long enough to align with the spirit of truth that is ever present when sought.
My soul culture doesn’t need the latest gossip or the endless list of injustice.
What my soul culture needs, I NEED, is a quiet place to listen and to breathe.
To soak in the falling rain.
To gather the harvest with ink stained hands.
To quietly walk among the moon lit streets before the dawn and give thanks for being alive.
Life does not stop in the stillness- I do. In this way I can recognize what is true based on how it feels as it brushes against my skin. If the image or word I encounter feels like a sharp edge, I turn away. Deceit has no place upon the golden truth found within my heart.
I am easing into what my soul culture desires. Discovering what fuels and fosters its expansion. There are times when my mind craves the drama of instant quick bites of noisy social culture- I let myself wrestle with the withdrawal and eat dark chocolate as a reward.
Today I am building a temple within myself that welcomes the Divine Spirit as an eternal guest. Here is where happiness and joy will melt with trust and persistence in something greater. As I discover my soul culture I arrive closer to the me that breathes in the pulse of life- limitless, glorious.
What are your ideas of soul culture? Have you found small or big things that fill your desire cup? Leave me your thoughts, I would love to have a conversation around the creation of soul culture in our lives.
Seeing you limitless,
Lenaleah
1. Truth comes in many shades.
2. There are times when you must run empty to be full.
3. In making the choice to pursue your desire, letting go of what isn’t desired becomes that much easier.
4. Personal truth and fact are not always the same. The space between is where judgement rests.
5. Sometimes, I’m just thirsty for wonder.
Okay...this is quite timely. For awhile now I have been doing that thing I do with words...with the word culture. CULTure. I've been cauldron fleshing this to help me make some medicine sense of the people of the world right now. So I took it to the word magic and found culture as CULTure was coming into view...that a level of cult-dom plays out for society to keep moving.
In this post, Lena, you have pointed me in a direction I wasn't seeing to explore. So I took it to the etymology of the word culture and found it's roots culture is about the health and wealth tending of the soil. (my words, not the internets)
This direction turned me towards mySELF and away from trying to make sense of the outside world...and this was a much needed recalibration. THANK YOU!!!
SO...for me, I'm seeing soul culture as the tending of my wholeness as a soul who lives in a body. The body is related to the Earth element. Soul culture is my spirit living inside my body...the relationship between these two opposites as the tilling and fallowing of the soil of my wholeness. Soul culture is becoming the practice of not just surviving, but having nutrient dense energy that provides thriving life. Soul culture is being me...and taking care of both the shit and the shine of that...repairing the broken fences...weeding the ditchlines...planting cover crops and waiting out a growing season...etc, etc, etc. #redneckerystrikesagain
I love you. Thank you for the different direction to explore. Thank you for inciting conversation. xoxo
...When Blessed Nothing is the remedy. 🖤