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Old 12-27-2006, 01:00 PM
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Most of us live in cities. But are these cities more conducive to our spirituality than nature? Or, is nature more conducive to our spirituality than the cities we live in? Why?
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Old 12-27-2006, 01:04 PM
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In my faith it is taught that every single living thing has a tiny spark of the Creators spirit in it. The more we surround ourselves with living things the easier it is to draw close to Him. I don't know anyone who has felt closer to their Creator while surrounded by concrete than by trees.
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Old 12-27-2006, 01:07 PM
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Most of us live in cities. But are these cities more conducive to our spirituality than nature? Or, is nature more conducive to our spirituality than the cities we live in? Why?
Well it can be conducive to a certain extent, there are always nice parks around. But from where I live, I have to drive about 15 minutes to find a nice quiet pretty surrounding. It's very noisy here in the city, unfortunately I live on a busy street...I want to move because of that.
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Most of us live in cities. But are these cities more conducive to our spirituality than nature? Or, is nature more conducive to our spirituality than the cities we live in? Why?
I imagine most people will say nature is more conducive to promoting spirituality. However, if we were all locked inside a 10 x 10' prison cell and had the desire to reach a spiritual plane...it would be possible. It's all dependent on motivation and desire. The place should eventually be irrelevant if we are practiced.
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I live in the country.......I love it. The city is not far anyway. I travel so much with my job I get to see all the cities I need to. After a busy day it is nice to come home to quiet. Just sit outside have a glass of wine and relax. I need the peace.
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Old 12-27-2006, 04:19 PM
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Urban living is wholly artificial and cuts you off from the Mother, not just the psychological archetype or her embodiment in Nature but the primordial, ancestral body-memory that each and every one of us has. City-dwellers diet on animus, the Male Father-energy: that's why mechanistic industrial Patriarchates roundly reject the natural inter-connectedness of rural surrounds and Our Lady of the Wild Things. The confirmed Townsman will always prefer the abstract and intellectual to the salient and immediate.

That said, all true spiritualities are conducive to any and all environs by easy adaptation: my inner-city apartment has served me well for a long time in the practice of mysticism. Buddhism is a classic example of a Cosmic religion: in the wild, the city or even on another planet, Buddhism is and would be the same.
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I think everyone who wants to reach a spirtiual plane can reach it even if he was under the ground!
Nature is better for me because there, I can see the beauty of God's creation and that helps me faster to reach
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Cities, I find, can be spiritually exhausting. In some of the apartment complexes I've lived in, one would have to search for awhile before finding any ground that wasn't paved. Not being able to be near trees can be draining, too. (At least, if one is not able to get out into the wild often.)
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