This question is primarily directed toward the INFPs, but anyone can respond.
My question is: What do you consider sacred? These sacred things can be objects, experiences, qualities, whatever it is that you find to be sacred to your life and experience. Please share what is sacred and explain why, being as candid as you wish to be. I believe this is a useful question to ask to others, because it can reveal a lot about their innermost values.
I will kick this off:
I believe that HONEY is sacred. If you take a single spoonful of honey, you are holding the product of the life-giving force of THOUSANDS of flowers. These flowers had spent months absorbing the moisture of the earth, the rays of the sun, growing and striving for one purpose alone - to give. First to give the nectar to the bees and insects who in turn give their services in fertilizing hundreds of flowers, and then these flowers finish their service by producing the fruit and/or seeds to give life to the next generation. Selflessness...life for the benefit of other life. But this precious, sweet nectar is benefacted by the flowers to the tireless legions of bees that spread life, and by combining their own salival fluid with the fluid nectar of the flowers, the sugary product of harmonious service is born; nature's edible gold, honey. Flowers and bees do live to sustain themselves, but only for the purpose of serving the rest of nature, and the sacred sweetness of honey is a concentrated, tangible testament to the of the harmonized power of selfless service.
This becomes a lesson to me and all of humanity. When we depart from this harmonious pattern of selflessness exemplified in much of nature and turn to the way of self-centeredness, I believe that a resultant disharmony grows inside of us, and a void of purpose swells in the soul, producing a strong hunger. The instinct of our human nature signals us to become indulgent, and we are quick to follow the cue with many forms of pleasure and self-serving strivings. But when we observe the sublime pattern given in nature, the real hunger of the soul is to fulfill a purpose; a purpose that does not serve self or spiral inward, but that fulfills a purpose for the life around us, and nature holds out its viscous, golden treasure that is honey and tells us that if we will but enter into unity with the pattern of giving service our soul will be satisfied by the sweetness that results.
My question is: What do you consider sacred? These sacred things can be objects, experiences, qualities, whatever it is that you find to be sacred to your life and experience. Please share what is sacred and explain why, being as candid as you wish to be. I believe this is a useful question to ask to others, because it can reveal a lot about their innermost values.
I will kick this off:
I believe that HONEY is sacred. If you take a single spoonful of honey, you are holding the product of the life-giving force of THOUSANDS of flowers. These flowers had spent months absorbing the moisture of the earth, the rays of the sun, growing and striving for one purpose alone - to give. First to give the nectar to the bees and insects who in turn give their services in fertilizing hundreds of flowers, and then these flowers finish their service by producing the fruit and/or seeds to give life to the next generation. Selflessness...life for the benefit of other life. But this precious, sweet nectar is benefacted by the flowers to the tireless legions of bees that spread life, and by combining their own salival fluid with the fluid nectar of the flowers, the sugary product of harmonious service is born; nature's edible gold, honey. Flowers and bees do live to sustain themselves, but only for the purpose of serving the rest of nature, and the sacred sweetness of honey is a concentrated, tangible testament to the of the harmonized power of selfless service.
This becomes a lesson to me and all of humanity. When we depart from this harmonious pattern of selflessness exemplified in much of nature and turn to the way of self-centeredness, I believe that a resultant disharmony grows inside of us, and a void of purpose swells in the soul, producing a strong hunger. The instinct of our human nature signals us to become indulgent, and we are quick to follow the cue with many forms of pleasure and self-serving strivings. But when we observe the sublime pattern given in nature, the real hunger of the soul is to fulfill a purpose; a purpose that does not serve self or spiral inward, but that fulfills a purpose for the life around us, and nature holds out its viscous, golden treasure that is honey and tells us that if we will but enter into unity with the pattern of giving service our soul will be satisfied by the sweetness that results.