I keep staring at this blank blog page. I wish I could really extol to you all the catharsis of being here. I arrived to our cottage, and I was just dumbstruck with how much at home I feel. The cooks, the drivers, all the staff that is helping us with our volunteer experience are like my brothers. For the most part all the people on this trip just push me up and up, and they make me want to just embrace it all. Attaining enlightenment and is not about letting go. Discipline and religion and spiritual awakening is not about punishing yourself for all materialism, for all wants, for everything. Life is about embracing all around you, about feeling connected, about feeling one with all.
I stayed up really late last night sitting watching the stars and the stillness in the mountains with two new friends Chris and Henry. Chris is from Pittsburg and Henry is from Chicago. He actually works at Yolk, which is my favorite brunch spot! We talked for hours about life, religion, spirituality, and just feeling so connected. I have searched for all my life for people with a similar mindset as me, a similar thirst for something beyond. Somehow God led me to a place with virtually every person connecting to me on such an ethereal, esoteric level.
We went on a hike up to see the Kangra Valley this morning for sunrise. I woke up a good hour before we had to leave. People who truly know me, know that I can thrive very well outside of comfort and luxury. These pretenses are but implications and niceties that we all fall subject to. My spiritual connection though is with the simplicity and casting off of those connections and things that I think I need. I just feel so energetic and infused. Despite being away from everyone, bucket baths, squatting to use the restroom, bugs - this feels the most right of anytime, anyplace in my life. I feel so detached from everything, yet so connected to it all.
I am working closely with a girl named Rebecca who actually went to IUPUI too! We are going to be doing a lot of the medical work together, and I think we are a perfect fit. We are just open and filled with love and compassion to want to just be a part of it all. I truly am blessed yet again. I know it seems so redundant, but I wish that I could be just as Rumi said - that one drop longing to be part of the ocean and finally joining it; losing oneself forever.
I stayed up really late last night sitting watching the stars and the stillness in the mountains with two new friends Chris and Henry. Chris is from Pittsburg and Henry is from Chicago. He actually works at Yolk, which is my favorite brunch spot! We talked for hours about life, religion, spirituality, and just feeling so connected. I have searched for all my life for people with a similar mindset as me, a similar thirst for something beyond. Somehow God led me to a place with virtually every person connecting to me on such an ethereal, esoteric level.
We went on a hike up to see the Kangra Valley this morning for sunrise. I woke up a good hour before we had to leave. People who truly know me, know that I can thrive very well outside of comfort and luxury. These pretenses are but implications and niceties that we all fall subject to. My spiritual connection though is with the simplicity and casting off of those connections and things that I think I need. I just feel so energetic and infused. Despite being away from everyone, bucket baths, squatting to use the restroom, bugs - this feels the most right of anytime, anyplace in my life. I feel so detached from everything, yet so connected to it all.
I am working closely with a girl named Rebecca who actually went to IUPUI too! We are going to be doing a lot of the medical work together, and I think we are a perfect fit. We are just open and filled with love and compassion to want to just be a part of it all. I truly am blessed yet again. I know it seems so redundant, but I wish that I could be just as Rumi said - that one drop longing to be part of the ocean and finally joining it; losing oneself forever.
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