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Dan Gilliam: Current Meanderings

The Benefits of a Spiritual Retreat

Posted on January 29, 2011 with 0 comments
Grounded liberation

Think back to some of your most enjoyable childhood memories. Can you remember the leisurely hours of seemingly endless summer days when you lay in your yard and felt the cool green grass on your head and neck? Can you recall the sweet sensation of solitude when sitting alone in your room with a book, dreaming of romance and adventure in distant cities and faraway lands? Remember the adrenaline pulsing through your veins as you rode your bicycle down a steep hill imagining you were flying on a magic carpet? Can you still hear the locusts, frogs and song birds that surrounded you in concert as you wandered aimlessly through your neighborhood, city park or farm field? Each step you took made you feel at once grounded to the earth and liberated to soar beyond where your innocent meandering would lead you.

The thrill of transcendence

What was it that made those days gone by seem as if time stood still if not the experience of living completely in the moment though you [...]
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