The Spiritual Supermarket

We walk in open-hearted.

Shelves filled with promises- 

pathways, outcomes,

Versions of who we might become

We fill our baskets. 

Practices and tools,

packaged, polished, branded- 

bright and shiny, 

fast, accessible, on demand, 

ready to take home.

More ways to fix ourselves 

more ways to become more 

Ritual sits beside revenue

Practice becomes a product 

And we keep consuming-

more, 

and more, 

and more.

Always chasing the next thing 

and the belief that growth can be bought

That somewhere in all of this 

is the key 

to the kingdom of possibility 

But what if it isn’t there?

What if the turning point 

is not another purchase or pathway 

but a slowing down 

A step away from outcomes 

from endless scaling 

from reaching for more 

outside of ourselves.

What if we leaned instead 

into the wisdom 

of our ordinary, unmarketable lives?

Our hands in the soil

Our hearts turned towards what is here 

Letting life ripen,

slowly,

in its own time.

By
Tanya Cameron