Look, I know you’re probably a global girl. And if you’re not, us global girls have something we want to share with you.
We’ve been chatting a lot about being multidimensional on Grow Deep, and the point doesn’t seem to be driven home *quite* enough, because the big guys upstairs (my affectionate name for all of the guides and beings in the spirit realm that whisper exactly what I should write to you and when) want to keep talking about multidimensionality.
So. I read a quote today. It says,
Travel not to find yourself but to find who you’ve been all along.
In other words, you aren’t finding anything that wasn’t already there when you find yourself…you’re just rediscovering the other parts of you that already existed. Your… multidimensionality, shall we say?!
The quote seems really kitsch at first, but when you ponder it through the lens of metaphysical teachings and the path to knowing yourself, it rings true and deep.
It’s difficult to describe this through the lens of anyone but myself, so I’ll tell you about me.
I come from everywhere. I was born in Canada, and raised in the United States.
Around the age of 16 a fire lit inside of me to travel internationally. I visited Nepal and Greece, Italy and Uganda, Chile and Argentina. I immersed myself in other cultures for long periods of time so that I had the ‘authentic’ experience. I spent all my money on travel. I asked for socks for Christmas just because my parents wanted me to have something to ‘open’ underneath the tree, but my real gift was a couple hundred bucks to put toward my next flight somewhere.
Once I was there, I slept in hostels and with host families in (usually) awful conditions, but it never mattered, because I was expanding.
Travel was always the *most worthwhile* investment that I could make.
Never knowing what I was seeking, everyone around me believed I was running away–from my family, my life, my culture.
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