This summer, why not make travel your new spiritual practice? It will cause you, the spiritual sojourner, to embrace change through rose-colored glasses with every now moment to experience as new, adventurous, and exciting! If you resist Travel’s Life Lessons by wearing dark-tinted glasses, the experience can become tiresome, challenging, and nightmarish! Synchronistic surprises might not show up. The choice depends on what pair of spiritual glasses you choose to wear every day: rose-colored or tinted.
Rewind: While staying at the Oberoi Cecil in Shimla, India, my travel friend chose to sit in what appeared to be the “best side” at our historic hotel’s breakfast table; her place held a sweeping view of the dining room built in 1884. This was a sight probably savored by its famous hotel guest Rudyard Kipling, author of the Jungle Book. I could imagine him buttering his toast and sipping on Earl Grey tea in this now restored, grand British colonial room.
A bit miffed --and wearing my not so spiritual, dark-tinted glasses-- I arrived late to sit down across from her, facing the window.
She immediately gasped, “Ohhh, my God!”
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
Dancing across my white shirt were rainbows reflected from the 12 foot high stained glass windows.
Tears gushed.
“Why are you crying?” she asked.
I reminded her that the day before was the one-year anniversary of my dad’s death. Rainbows were his signs that he was present and all was well.
I continued gushing while appreciating my friend’s seating choice --or certainly I’d never worn the rainbows on me-- messages from my dad.
5 Ways to Make Summer Travel a Spiritual Practice
By Lore Raymond
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