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December 2008 
If you were to create a retreat or retreat center, what would it
jeepdog
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RETREAT? Retreat from WHAT?
We can no more retreat from life than we can avoid physical death.
Life is us - to retreat from life is to retreat from ourselves.
My "ADVANCE!" or perhaps even "DE-" Center would revel in including and transcending, then allow an open discourse to allow foster the Spirit in being "decentered from the me and the mine," embracing "care and concern and compassion and conviction" and then integration into the whole of US again to allow the Spirit to "announce itself only through the voice of those who have the courage to stand in the worldcentric space and defend it against lesser and shallower engagements."
Where would this be? I'm prone to nature, so on a high mountain medow - no structure - and learn through our bodies, our minds, our spirits, the nature of the Kosmos. However, I'm open to suggestions as to where to have a De-Center.
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Best. Answer. EVER.
Why, in a Dis-Lodge, of course, on a Mis-Steppe, with a De-Stable on the nearly De-Range for all the Sacred Cows. As to the whereabouts of this Dis-Place… I don't know. Anyone?
(And I second L'el's comment.)
“Life is us - to retreat from life is to retreat from ourselves.” - hm I love this line :-)
This really is the best answer ever! OK, I may suggest that the de-center is what we are? And what we are doing right now is the act itself. So, the De-center would be right where you are and can open the inner door…wherever that may be in time and space.
Great, insightful, perfect answer, this post. You amaze me.
Heather-
Of course you may suggest that! In fact, as I wrote this, I thought “Gaia could even be the De-center,” but also thought “nah, that's too bootlicking and cheeky.”
Great suggestion - but I still like high mountain meadows, so if the de-center is where I'm at and opening the door, then you nice folks will have to climb and join me there.
Well, here I am that cheecky lass! LOL…I'd make that clime!
i love this - embrace life, live it to the hilt, fling yourself into the depths of isness!