Not Everything Means Something

Written By Chloë Rain
Tromsø, Norway November 24, 2020

Tromsø, Norway November 24, 2020

Reflect upon this simple statement: “He who is of few needs, and easy to serve, swiftly finds peace, and is already close to happiness.”

The more complicated we make ourselves, the more complicated is our idea of ourselves, the more we will perceive our needs to be, the more of a burden we will be to this planet, while we spend our time here pursuing those needs.

The truth is, the only real needs are food, shelter, and companionship, and everything else is a bonus. One who is content with food, shelter, and companionship treads lightly on this world and swiftly gets to the point where they have something to give back.

But one who is not content with that, who feels they need an extraordinary elaborate array of things in their lives to feel their life is meaningful, makes an awful ruckus in their time upon this planet.

Somebody asked me “Do we all have inside of us, that pure part, that pure consciousness?” and the answer is “Yes.”

— Philosophy of Alan Watts

Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway, where she spent four years researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

Through her work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds them, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, culture, and religion.

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