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Post by Senbecc on Aug 8, 2006 14:23:51 GMT -5
What does your path mean to you as an individual? In your own words discribe how and what your path has added to the philosophies and beliefs about the world around you.
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shaamansu
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We walk our paths softly in light and beauty.
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Post by shaamansu on Aug 8, 2006 15:17:46 GMT -5
Oh my, Well my path is ever present and before me. It is a tremendous part of how I view the world around me. My path is my Life...My Life is my path. I am a normal person, with family and all the mundane things that go with everyday living, but how I view even the mundane is affected by my path. I look at things from a broad persepective...everything is connected. If the balance is off one place...it affects all the rest. My path is filled with light/energy...I am aware of many things. I am akin to an umbrella around the world...cking in different places.
Since I accepted what "She Who is Always With Me" bestowed on me...I have grown by leaps and bounds within the past couple of years more than in the past 40. I am both amazed and humbled.
I don't know how else to describe it. It is a personal thing with each of us.
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Post by moonwind333 on Aug 8, 2006 16:37:11 GMT -5
My path and I Am are the same thing.
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shaamansu
Seeker
We walk our paths softly in light and beauty.
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Post by shaamansu on Aug 8, 2006 18:57:25 GMT -5
:)Exactly.
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Post by bran_sinnach on Aug 9, 2006 0:24:47 GMT -5
*chuckles* That is probably the hardest question I have ever been asked, to be honest, simply because my path means so much to me and has affected me so deeply that it’s hard to think of a way to fit it all into just a post. How did my path affect my philosophies about the world when I found it? It altered them completely. Admittedly, I am a little uncomfortable talking about this, but I don’t think it would be fair to the question if I didn’t answer completely and honestly. Before I found my path, I was a monster, plain and simple. I was a cold, ruthless, manipulative creature that was willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to get what I wanted. I had no morals, no ethics, and the world and her people were nothing but tools through which I might accomplish my ends. To make it worse, I was a smart kid with a silver tongue, so I always knew the right things to say, when to say them, and just what saying them could get me. Lol, people who knew me then tell me I was a fantastic businessman. In short, I had no humanity. But through some events that I wont bother others with here, I knew I had to change, and a long story short I came upon Druidism and just sort of…knew. Through the help of my goddess guide me (and occasionally shove me when I needed it), I managed to deal with who I had been and put my past behind me so I could move on to become the man I wanted to be, the man I am now, and am still becoming to this day. So what has my path added to the philosophies and beliefs about the world around me? In a nut shell, everything, because without it I simply would not be the man I am today. It’s taught me everything from empathy to honor. Without my path before me and my goddess beside me, I would still be another power hungry predator, using those around him like tools to make himself content whenever he wished, but always finding actual happiness frustratingly out of his reach. And what does my path mean to me? It means knowing simple joys of life, and the ability to freely express myself as I never could before. It is knowing that I would willingly give my life to save that of others I would never know and to do so without expectation of reward or praise. It means finding the wonders, the enlightenment, which the search for knowledge brings to those who look for it and work for it, rather than demanding that information be handed to me on a silver platter (to me, these two things, knowledge and information, will never be the same) and the hollow victories it might give. It is knowing my Truth against the World, and knowing myself, and learning more about both every day. It is accepting nature for all of its beautiful wildness and untamed power and accepting my place within its eternal web, rather than striving to enslave it and become its master. My path has shared and shares knowledge with me. It has taught me to see the Truth, my Truth, against the world. And it has shown me nature and her beauty that is beyond anything we could ever hope to replicate or shackle. In short, I am my path, and my path is me. I apologize if this reply was a bit over-emotional, but it was the only answer I could give in honest reply to the question posed.
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Post by Senbecc on Aug 9, 2006 3:43:19 GMT -5
Oh my, Well my path is ever present and before me. It is a tremendous part of how I view the world around me. My path is my Life...My Life is my path. I am a normal person, with family and all the mundane things that go with everyday living, but how I view even the mundane is affected by my path. I look at things from a broad persepective...everything is connected. If the balance is off one place...it affects all the rest. My path is filled with light/energy...I am aware of many things. I am akin to an umbrella around the world...cking in different places. Since I accepted what "She Who is Always With Me" bestowed on me...I have grown by leaps and bounds within the past couple of years more than in the past 40. I am both amazed and humbled. I don't know how else to describe it. It is a personal thing with each of us. There is nothing more personal that I am aware of. To me following a Druid way is a life long quest for Draíocht. Magic is nothing more than a bi-product of the original intention. Since the first time I traveled the 5 streams of Imbas I have thirsted for knowledge. Not just on the Celtic paths, or even Pagan Paths. I have studied Christianity, Scientology, evolution (Though I'm sure there are those who might feel evolution is a tenent of scientology), and many other scientific type philosophies such as the nature of time, geneologies, nature of DNA, memory techniques and other such. The Druid way is so much more than some Celtic texts, and trying to figure out if those texts are acurrate and so on. It is an accumulation of knowledge on all subjects, and using that knowledge as an adviser to the people that you serve as a Druid.
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Post by Senbecc on Aug 9, 2006 3:46:37 GMT -5
*chuckles* That is probably the hardest question I have ever been asked, to be honest, simply because my path means so much to me and has affected me so deeply that it’s hard to think of a way to fit it all into just a post. How did my path affect my philosophies about the world when I found it? It altered them completely. Admittedly, I am a little uncomfortable talking about this, but I don’t think it would be fair to the question if I didn’t answer completely and honestly. Before I found my path, I was a monster, plain and simple. I was a cold, ruthless, manipulative creature that was willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to get what I wanted. I had no morals, no ethics, and the world and her people were nothing but tools through which I might accomplish my ends. To make it worse, I was a smart kid with a silver tongue, so I always knew the right things to say, when to say them, and just what saying them could get me. Lol, people who knew me then tell me I was a fantastic businessman. In short, I had no humanity. But through some events that I wont bother others with here, I knew I had to change, and a long story short I came upon Druidism and just sort of…knew. Through the help of my goddess guide me (and occasionally shove me when I needed it), I managed to deal with who I had been and put my past behind me so I could move on to become the man I wanted to be, the man I am now, and am still becoming to this day. So what has my path added to the philosophies and beliefs about the world around me? In a nut shell, everything, because without it I simply would not be the man I am today. It’s taught me everything from empathy to honor. Without my path before me and my goddess beside me, I would still be another power hungry predator, using those around him like tools to make himself content whenever he wished, but always finding actual happiness frustratingly out of his reach. And what does my path mean to me? It means knowing simple joys of life, and the ability to freely express myself as I never could before. It is knowing that I would willingly give my life to save that of others I would never know and to do so without expectation of reward or praise. It means finding the wonders, the enlightenment, which the search for knowledge brings to those who look for it and work for it, rather than demanding that information be handed to me on a silver platter (to me, these two things, knowledge and information, will never be the same) and the hollow victories it might give. It is knowing my Truth against the World, and knowing myself, and learning more about both every day. It is accepting nature for all of its beautiful wildness and untamed power and accepting my place within its eternal web, rather than striving to enslave it and become its master. My path has shared and shares knowledge with me. It has taught me to see the Truth, my Truth, against the world. And it has shown me nature and her beauty that is beyond anything we could ever hope to replicate or shackle. In short, I am my path, and my path is me. I apologize if this reply was a bit over-emotional, but it was the only answer I could give in honest reply to the question posed. I have undoubtedly had my less honorable moments too Bran. Trust me on that one. However isn't that the point behind such paths? As a betterment to the individual?
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Post by fireraven1379 on Aug 9, 2006 20:55:06 GMT -5
What does your path mean to you as an individual? In your own words describe how and what your path has added to the philosophies and beliefs about the world around you. Good question. It is very hard to put down how my path affects my life but I will try. It has seemed that I've always known that there was more out there and the paths that other religions had to offer did not feel right because it did not feel like home. Finding the Pagan and Wiccan path gave me the home that I needed. When I needed to be part of a group I found my tradition at the right time. It seems that things that I need happen at the right time. The hardest thing for me was learning that things take time and important things appear when it is time. My path has given me patience and the ability to take each step at a time and take in the scenery and lessons as I travel it. I know that my path has affected me in different ways and allowed me to be the person I have always been but the other ways it has affected me are very hard to explain so I will leave my answer with that the path of the God and Goddess has brought me home and allows me to be me. In addition it reminds me to live life to the fullest everyday, and that there are no regrets but only lessons to learn no matter what the circumstance that surrounds our learning the wisdom that we need to live life.
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