Interesting Title Alluding to My Spiritual Awakening

[Diana]

Welcome SpookyFish.

The tattoo next to the scar is, to me, symbolic of the way that our pain becomes an honored, transformed part of our journey.

I love this metaphor.

I find myself not infrequently locked into melancholy, depression, and anxiety that cocoons of my own making born of the uncultivated, unmindful, habituated mental patterns. I've been contemplating and expressing thanksgiving of late as a spiritual practice, expressing gratitude for the mundane to the wondrous, including the "teeny tiny intelligent microscopic living things that have created this larger living thing that I'm currently inhabiting." : ) It is a key that opens the hard shut windows to let in the light, to reveal to the blinded eyes a truer picture of the world.

I so agree with this.