View Full Version : I'm curious...
Rosana
January 8th, 2007, 09:50 AM
... if there are any Pagans feeling the same.
My path isn't about rituals, gods, prayers, lighting incenses and candles. It is rather about taking care of myself, my people and the environment. About leading simple life, oriented on quality, not quantity. About long walks and admiring both nature's and human's creations. About making natural remedies, crafts and cosmetics. About beautifying my space and my life. About listening and singing songs that make my spirit soar. About being fully present in the moment. About being thankful for the numerous blessings bestowed upon me by the life. My paganism doesn't require robes, tools, candles or altars. It's the state of my mind or mood rather than religion, practice or set of beliefs.
Anyone feels similar?
Merrilyn
January 8th, 2007, 10:08 AM
Yes. Very much so. :) For me..it's more of a philosophy, or way of life, than religion.
SailleSeeker
January 8th, 2007, 10:20 AM
Very much so, though sorta different...
Many of the activities and feelings and things that you described are the ways that I feel I best connect with what's truly "divine" in life, and they're also the ways that I feel I best honor my gods. The gods that I have relationships with are the gods that I honor in ritual (when I hold it, which is pretty seldom these days...), but when I talk with them (and when they get hold of me and try to get things through my human brain), most of what they want in terms of honor is for me to use my body and mind as if they are gifts from them to me as well gifts from me to them. In other words, I like to do my best to take care of my body because I've been given it to live in, and the experience of living in a healthy body is a way for me to manifest thanks for my body and give that thanks back to my gods.
Seeing things like that, I tend to feel that my everyday experience is pretty much the ultimate ritual.
Sometimes I feel like I'm being a crappy Wiccan because Wicca is so much about form and structure (at least, the forms and structures are what differentiate it, in a large part, from many other Pagan paths). I have a hard time connecting with ritual experience, often, and I don't tend to use a lot of tools except as visual symbols of how I'm seeing or feeling my gods. But what it comes down to, for me, is that my gods are what my religion is about - my gods and understanding the divine manifest in me - and whatever way I can best approach that is what works :)
Xirian
January 8th, 2007, 10:34 AM
My path is about spirituality and understanding it in relation to other's behaviors and ideals, other philosophies, cultures, history etc..., and connecting with something, from those, in order to have a better understanding of my own spiritual personality. It is ongoing.
I do agree, for the most part, with what you are saying. It is also about making myself a better person and in turn that energy will be spread about to others.
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