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Member Profile: pilgrim9
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"Seeking satsang"
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I am a:
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61-year-old Man (Single)
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Located in:
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Bloomington, IN (USA) |
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Seeking a:
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Woman (41 to 61) |
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For:
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Dating, Serious Relationship, Marriage |
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Spirituality:
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Hindu, Sufism, Other |
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| About Me
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I have been seeking God since the age of 20 or so, but many detours and difficulties have presented themselves along the way. This world and life are a play and ultimately an illusion, but at the same time all that is good and beautiful in it is a window into the Divine Reality. The only purpose of this life is to remove the veils covering our spiritual Heart in order to unveil that Reality at the core of our being. Marriage is an exercise in the development of the virtues needed for this. "It is not good for men to be alone", as it says in the book of Genesis.
I love to read, to meditate and to think on topics of metaphysics, religion, and spiritual life. I love the study of languages. I love to travel to foreign countries (especially where religion is still the center of life), and a year of study in India in the 1980s was transformative; Indian and Morocco are the 2 countries with a special place in my heart. Other interests include cats (I have 2). gardening, classical music, and hiking, especially in the American West.
I was married for 7 years once, but the difference in personalities was too great. Have had a few attempts since but in the U.S. these days it is difficult to find women who value spirituality and virtue, while I have no interest in the entertainment culture of the U. S. |
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Basics
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My Sign:
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Taurus |
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I speak:
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English, Arabic, French, Tamil |
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Occupation:
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Occupational Therapist |
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Education:
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Graduate Degree |
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Annual Income:
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$100,001 to $150,000 |
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Ethnicity:
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Caucasian |
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Height:
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5 10" (178 cm)
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Body Type:
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Slender |
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Eye Color:
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Brown |
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Hair Color:
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Light Brown |
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Hair Length:
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Short |
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Lifestyle
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I live with:
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Live alone |
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Have kids:
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No |
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Want (more) children:
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No |
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Willing To Relocate:
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Maybe
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Diet:
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Health Food Nut |
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Smoking:
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No |
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Drinking:
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No |
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Exercise:
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exercise occasionally |
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Pets:
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Cat |
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How I spend my free time:
- praying, reading, hiking, playing with cats
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| Personality
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My Personality:
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Intelligent, Quiet, Playful
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When out with friends, I'm usually:
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Trying to be a good listener
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What makes me laugh hardest:
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Ton Conway
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I'm happiest when:
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in nature, in a medieval sanctuary, in prayer, listening to good classical music
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The things that annoy me are:
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loud "rap" or "rock" music; petty people
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The best day of my life was when:
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I met wise and saintly men or women
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If I could have dinner with any three people, they would be:
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Jesus
Muhammad
Buddha
The reasons should be obvious
Also Shankara, Plato, Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna, Ibn Arabi, Rumi, St. John the Apostle ....
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Interests
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My interests, hobbies, and pastimes include...
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Gardening, History, Museums, Politics, Reading, Writing
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The physical activities I'm interested in are:
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Camping, Hiking/Backpacking, Walking, Yoga (hatha)
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For fun I like to...
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read, hike, play with my cats, garden, study languages, travel
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My favorite movies:
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I have not watched a movie in a long time, but a few that stand out in my memory are:
Ben Hur, Braveheart, The Gods Must be Crazy, Young Catherine, Glory, The Mission, Seven Years in Tibet, The Last Emperor.
I tend to like historical movies -- reality -- rather than fiction
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My favorite music:
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classical -- Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven
Indian classical music
Gypsy music
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My favorite books:
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Books of Frithjof Schuon are by far my favorite, the foundation of my spiritual life.
If you wish to understand my mindset and also probably gain a new perspective on human history and the modern world, a good book to start with would be A Guide for the Perplexed, by EF Schumacher, which turned my world-view upside down some 40 years ago. Also, Religion in the Modern World by Lord Northbourne was another foundational book.
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Values
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The virtues I consider most important are...
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Humility, Generosity, Patience
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The things I'm most grateful for in life are...
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my Mother
my health
my opportunities
my friends, including the lovely cats I have had
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My goals, and what I want out of life...
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transcending my petty little ego; becoming a mirror of Divine Realiy
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My greatest accomplishments in life have been...
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I have failed miserably in most things! I once had a Fulbright scholarship and managed to miss out of taking it. I need someone who can keep me from shooting myself in the foot gong forward.
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Five or ten years from now, I see myself...
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retired from the modern workplace and living in a sort of spiritual retreat, with plenty of time for meditation, prayer and study, with occasional travels to distant lands.... Hopefully with a like-minded wife
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My political inclination can be described as...
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Non-conformist
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Spirituality
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Hindu, Sufism, Other
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I consider my spirituality...
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The central focus of my life
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What brought me to my spiritual path and motivated my interest...
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A professor who exposed to me to certain writings, and then the discovery of the sacred in Hinduism, Christianity, and islam... Be sacred, which captivated me and convinced me of the shallowness and pointlessness of the militantly secular modern world.
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I consider the purpose of my spirituality to be...
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Connecting to something greater than myself, Building a personal relationship with God, Instilling morality and virtues
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After the body dies...
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Other
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I would define a spiritual experience as...
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The residing of consciousness on a level above that of ordinary, everyday affairs.
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A spiritual experience I would like to share...
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These are private
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The spiritual books and authors that have had the greatest impact on me...
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Frithjof Schuon.
Rene Guenon
Titus Burckhart
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Ramana Maharshi
Meister Eckhart
Rumi
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Who I'm Looking For
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I'm seeking a:
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Woman (41 to 61)
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Ethnicity:
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Any
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Height:
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5' 0" to 5' 8" (152cm to 173cm)
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Body Type:
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Slender, Average
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Hair Color:
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Black, Blonde, Dark Blonde, Light Brown, Dark Brown
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She should speak:
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English
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Education:
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Some College, Associates Degree, Bachelors Degree, Graduate Degree, PhD/Post Doctoral, School of Life
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Annual Income:
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Doesn't Matter
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Smoking:
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No
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Drinking:
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No
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Vegetarian:
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Doesn't Matter
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Has children:
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No, Yes (living away from her)
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Wants children:
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Probably not, No
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Personality:
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Caring, Playful, Intelligent
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When out with friends, she would be...
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The talkative one, The quiet one, Trying to be a good listener
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sufism, Taoist, Spiritual, not religious
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She would consider her faith or spirituality...
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The central focus of her life, Very important
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