A simple seeker was meditating on a card she had pulled randomly from her Tarot deck, a lone figure with a lantern.
“Do you know what lived experience The Hermi card expresses?”
“I seem to relate to it.”
“In what way?”
“As a solitary seeker.”
“How can you consider yourself to be solitary while I’m part of your life?”
“It’s possible to be alone in a crowd.”
“We’re not a crowd.”
“What difference does it make?”
“To what?”
“Aloneness in thought.”
“What about aloneness in emotion?”
“What about it?”
“If you can feel alone in thought …”
“You slipped “feel”‘ in.”
“Yes, to prove a point.”
“That thoughts aren’t isolated from emotions?”
“Yes. They each are as one of two sides of the same reality.”
“The reality of …?”
“Our state of mind.”
“I sense Ego coming into the picture.”
“Yes. Ego is the central mover and pusher of our thoughts, emotions, and actions. We can’t do or even feel anything without our individual life force – ego.”
“There may be thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of people who don’t seem to be aware of this reality.”
“This” suggests that you’re aware.”
“Yes, but I have no power of persuasion to inspire others to shake off the illusion of ego as being something they can function without, and still be able to live in the physical world as an individual, beyond the control of some guru more aware than they are.”
“Yes. They’d be as slaves.”
“Perhaps they are, now.”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
A sudden thought re The Hermit. Spirit may have caused my hand to pull that card.
“Why?”
“To help me understand that we each move through life alone, at least in some way.”
“In what way?”
“Nobody can live our life for us.”
“Personal responsibility?”
“Yes. It’s unavoidable, I guess.”
“Yes.”
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Simple Seekers 