Remembering how we were supposed to live.

I don’t want to go back ‘out there’…to the noise, the traffic, the houses on top of each other, to the tarmac and the cables and the people caught up in living their lives to support a system which is inherently sick, inherently wrong, and needs to be gone...

I don’t want to go back ‘out there’… to the meaningless conversations, to the stress, to the microwaves and the propaganda that pours from the pores of those who pull at the strings of all things…

I want to stay ‘here’…with the birds and the trees and the flowers and the river and the sauna and the fire…oh yes, the fire…and the songs and the drums and the music and the dancing and the circle…we are MEANT to be in circle…

I want to stay ‘here’ with the people and the practices that make my heart SING, that make me RISE, that make me REMEMBER that we were all once circle people…and our cells, they remember, THIS IS HOW WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LIVE! In joy, in rhythm with nature, with each other, to match our heartbeats together and dance in tune with the HEARTBEAT OF THE UNIVERSE.

And if ‘here’ is a state of mind, as all the teachings go, then ‘out there’ is a state of mind too, of course I know. And the only system we are ever caught up in is the one that resides in our minds, it’s the ONLY system we ever need to break free from…

So, I get to choose. ‘Out there’ or ‘here’…none of it’s a reality, I’ve just woven it into the tapestry, of my very own veil through which I look out, the one that blurs my vision, the one that perpetuates the story of separation…

So, I remember how it was supposed to be and my heart bleeds shards of gratitude for finding my way back to the path that is signposted – HOME.

And I’ll stay ‘here’ when I go back ‘out there’, or at least I’ll try, and when I forget, when I lose my tiny mind…I’ll remember all THIS. I’ll remember…THIS is how we were supposed to live.