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 product.

And we keep consuming,
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 in 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 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
in its own time.

Tanya Cameron
12 May 2026