{"id":1580,"date":"2008-10-17T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2008-10-17T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:30:00","slug":"disloyal-to-the-daily-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2008\/10\/17\/disloyal-to-the-daily-round\/","title":{"rendered":"disloyal to the daily round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/2943923784\/\" title=\"rose at the H by pilgrimgirl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3018\/2943923784_49b688c6ea.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"rose at the H\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to read the writings of Pico Ayer for quite some time&#8211;I have friends who gush about his travel writing.  And I am now a fan, too, since I&#8217;ve read and re-read his &#8220;Room with a View&#8221; article from the Nov\/Dec &#8220;Yoga + Joyful Living&#8221; magazine.  In this piece he speaks of the joy of silent meditation during his regular pilgrimages to a California monastery, but as he says, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t call this a pilgrimage because I&#8217;m not off to find myself, only to lose myself.&#8221;  He continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    &#8230;here in the monastery I&#8217;m committing a deeper infidelity, against the life I know and the values by which we are supposed to live.  I am being disloyal in the deepest way to the assumptions of the daily round, and daring to lay claim to a mystery at the heart of me&#8230;this is who I am when nobody is looking.  This is who I&#8217;m not, because the petty, struggling, ambitious &#8220;I&#8221; is gone.  I am as still, as timeless as the plate of sea below me.<br \/>    &#8230;everyone knows moments she has a deeper, purer self within, something that belongs to what stands out of time and space, and&#8230;the very beauty of it, is that it admits us into the realm of what cannot be said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the past few years I have been schooling myself in the beauty of silence.  I cherish those moments when I can connect to the deep core of Truth that&#8217;s inside of me through removing myself from the complications of language.  I know others find this Truth in myriad ways, but it&#8217;s nice to hear a fellow pilgrim express the thoughts of my heart so very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to read the writings of Pico Ayer for quite some time&#8211;I have friends who gush about his travel writing. 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