Letting the World In

You're sitting in your room. The windows and doors are shut, the air conditioner is humming softly, you're plugged into your headphones perusing through the wide web of the internet with a rabid disinterest. You're not exactly depressed; instead you feel a sort of void of emotion, aware of nothing besides the voices which are no longer singing and seem instead to be shrieking unintelligible nonsense and the glaring screen before you.

It's habits like these which make me seem to fall slowly but inevitably into a pit of only secular concerns, neglecting my spiritual life to the point where I seem toforget it completely unless someone should think to ask me what faith I follow. Does this sound like you at all?

We sometimes get to a point where we dive neither into ourselves or into the world, but rather into a deep abyss between the worlds which we never know existed until we climb back out. At this point you have left the world. You have disappeared from your own world and the world of others. At this point the only way to escape your prison is to lok for the world. Pay attention to yourself. Pay attention to others. Possibly the best advice I can give you is to have a conversation with a tree. They are the best listeners and the most likely to know exactly the thing to say.