say about everything if you could see me. But you can't see me, I'm hiding behind the taps of my keyboard. Little taps that are just little taps that tap. That's all these words are.
I have an affinity for certain kinds of food. Mostly, today, it is potatoes. I like baked potatoes, cut up into squares inside the skin, oozing with butter, sprinkled with salt. I think my obsession with food could be a combination of my partial Lebanese heritage and my natural state of womanhood. Or humanhood. I don't know what manhood is like, so I will have to attribute it to my womanhood.
People have a lot of perverted ideas about food. Some people think it is the devil incarnate, some people think anything other than food of great nutritional value is a terrible thing. And for some people it is an addictive pleasure, a wonderful comfort.
For me food is all sorts of nourishment, and better in smaller quantities. It tastes better when it is rarer. Not to the point of starvation (of course) but being slightly hungry before you eat isn't so bad. It makes it more fun for me. I have an anti cruelty stance as well that I believe has brought me health benefits as well.
But food or telling you what to eat is not what I am doing. It's just that you have to think about nourishment. Nourishment for your body is easy. It may take some work or self discipline, but it is generally an easy concept. But nourishment for the rest of you is more difficult.
I'm first going to identify what I would call the rest of oneself outside the body. I would call it the "spiritual mind." I don't think the spirit and the mind are so separate. It all originates in your brain, and it is all one thing to me. My religious preferences (or lack thereof) have made me more interested in the idea of daily life as a ritual in itself. A special ritual, that you get to repeat day in and day out. This is not learning to love something you hate, if you hate your everyday existence. It is to change what you can control about your daily life if you do not find it pleasurable.
You have to feed your spiritual mind. Otherwise, it will wither away. These things can wax and wane of course, but when properly cared for, it will wax more than wane. On a case by case basis, you may even just have this continual growth. I don't believe in alleged "enlightenment," but I believe in that continual growth as a truth. I hope to achieve not that constant but the continual improvement of self. Not to simplify, but to make so complicated it should be impossible to understand and still understand it.
So back to nourishment. I want to speak about it.
What the spirtual mind needs is exactly nourishment. The problem here lies in that there is no one size fits all exercise that fits in with everyone's plans and life and everything.
I have an affinity for certain kinds of food. Mostly, today, it is potatoes. I like baked potatoes, cut up into squares inside the skin, oozing with butter, sprinkled with salt. I think my obsession with food could be a combination of my partial Lebanese heritage and my natural state of womanhood. Or humanhood. I don't know what manhood is like, so I will have to attribute it to my womanhood.
People have a lot of perverted ideas about food. Some people think it is the devil incarnate, some people think anything other than food of great nutritional value is a terrible thing. And for some people it is an addictive pleasure, a wonderful comfort.
For me food is all sorts of nourishment, and better in smaller quantities. It tastes better when it is rarer. Not to the point of starvation (of course) but being slightly hungry before you eat isn't so bad. It makes it more fun for me. I have an anti cruelty stance as well that I believe has brought me health benefits as well.
But food or telling you what to eat is not what I am doing. It's just that you have to think about nourishment. Nourishment for your body is easy. It may take some work or self discipline, but it is generally an easy concept. But nourishment for the rest of you is more difficult.
I'm first going to identify what I would call the rest of oneself outside the body. I would call it the "spiritual mind." I don't think the spirit and the mind are so separate. It all originates in your brain, and it is all one thing to me. My religious preferences (or lack thereof) have made me more interested in the idea of daily life as a ritual in itself. A special ritual, that you get to repeat day in and day out. This is not learning to love something you hate, if you hate your everyday existence. It is to change what you can control about your daily life if you do not find it pleasurable.
You have to feed your spiritual mind. Otherwise, it will wither away. These things can wax and wane of course, but when properly cared for, it will wax more than wane. On a case by case basis, you may even just have this continual growth. I don't believe in alleged "enlightenment," but I believe in that continual growth as a truth. I hope to achieve not that constant but the continual improvement of self. Not to simplify, but to make so complicated it should be impossible to understand and still understand it.
So back to nourishment. I want to speak about it.
What the spirtual mind needs is exactly nourishment. The problem here lies in that there is no one size fits all exercise that fits in with everyone's plans and life and everything.
