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[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 7733"] Agree with you on all of that - perhaps it is I who is getting prickly in my old age ... to go back to the original question ... what do you think? Life is now full and stressful and loud and usually we take little time for ourselves. Our support systems are all synthetic - synthetic television, oven ready meals, emotive and un-thought-out books. There is a lot of fear, and no time, no time at all. In England, for instance, children no longer have the time or space to daydream, they are pushed into 'schools' from 3 and a half and don't then ever stop, possibly for the rest of their lives - terrible. Perhaps (without attaching deeper meanings to it) to take the time to step out of all that, to enter the rhythms of an older age, to oxygenate the brain for hours a day until it starts to work properly again, to rediscover calm, silence, the time to think and think and think and then not to think, to have only primitive basic desires - food, shelter, health, simple companionship and an almost tribal sharing. To discover that one does have roots - roots that go deep - because living breathing people who are now not even dust left buildings and roads for us to walk upon , enter into, enjoy. Perhaps these are some of the benefits of the pilgrimage for a secular person I will stop here because the next paragraph would go elsewhere ... :wink: [/QUOTE]
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