“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols…”
-Hermann Hesse
When I was younger, I used to want my life to be anything but ordinary. I longed to experience things that no one else around meexperienced and to experience them louder, more intensely and deeper than anyone else could. I wanted to change myself, change the world and make a difference everywhere I went. However as the years go by, I have begun to realize that while some people do their best to follow some standard life equation, there are few ordinary people and few ordinary lives. Dig deep enough and you will find that even the most ‘normal’ person we know has some hidden quirk that many would think was insane. There is no such thing as ordinary and while it is still important for me to experience as much life variety as possible and understand myself to the deepest spiritual level of which I am capable, that is just my quirk. Well, one of them anyways.
Blessings, G
“I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
― Joseph Campbell
Hanging around with many people, online and off, who are into spiritual matters I have noticed something. There are lots of people who feel that they are somehow special, a cut above the rest in awareness, knowledge, understanding etc.
I have known so many people who have felt that they had a unique connection to higher levels of being. That’s fine and it is a rare thing indeed for me to question it. What drives me a bit nuts tho, is hearing people talking about others as ‘juggles’, ‘unaware’, ‘involved’, asleep etc. OK so there are lots of people out there who have yet to explore the spiritual side of their beings yet every one of them has some form of unique spiritual beauty that no one else has…there is some facet of universal being that they are uniquely heir to with infinite potential. In the joy and delight of discovering my own and sharing with others I tend to feel too busy treading my path to worry overmuch about where I am relative to others.
Blessings, G
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Under Observation by G A Rosenberg 
Inner Workings by G A Rosenberg 
