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#27 Africa: Land of Creation with Saori + Miyamoto

Bridge to Being

Release Date: 08/03/2018

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Bridge to Being

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Your Creative Sparks:

  • Your life’s PHILOSOPHY can be as SIMPLE as doing what is right in front of you.
  • Sometimes CLARITY begins with knowing what we DO NOT WANT.
  • Why worry, when IT ALL WORKS OUT in the end?

Part two of four on our adventure in West Africa. Hang out with us on the porch under the hot African sun, while Lobsterbird endeavors to ply open the hearts behind the hands of Saori and Miyamoto. Undisguised and unpretentious as they come, these two volunteers simply followed the flow of life to Diébougou and found happy meaning among the singing children. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

  • How did Saori come to be in Africa? By airplane!, of course. This artist draws with the children of Diébougou. [2:20]
  • Saori’s philosophy of life is quite simple. She does what is in front of her. When asked what she WANTS to do in life, her response is that she is far more clear on what she DOESN’T want to do, like to go business meetings or wear fancy, poofy clothes. [8:46]
  • Saori doesn’t get caught up in thinking about problems, her own or the world’s. Does she have any problems? “I can’t think of any,” she says, “But if I started coughing, I would be more concerned about my health than about the problems of the world.” [14:04]
  • The Diébougou children follow Saori and Miyamoto around. Saori humbly dismisses the gesture and remarks that they are just interested because her skin is a different color. But Sophia sees deeper into the special relationship there… [19:20]
  • Miyamoto’s philosophy of life is to say yes, always to everything. This freedom to say yes included many years of drug use. “I used drugs to free myself, but in the end, I was captive to drugs,” he says. “It became the opposite. So I quit. I came to realize that there is more freedom without drugs.” [24:05]
  • What does Miyamoto think of Diébougou? It simply happened by chance. He hasn’t traveled anywhere else, so he has nothing to compare it to. The children here pay attention to him, and so he pays attention to them. This makes him happy. [38:20]
  • Like Saori, Miyamoto doesn’t spend his time in worry. What about poverty? War? Diseases? “Of course everything exists,” he says. “There is nothing that is weird about having them. But I don’t join inside. I join poverty, but I’m not thinking that I’m poor. I don’t have money, but I’ve never had a problem with money. I always have what I need for the day. [45:00]
  • Happiness for Saori and Miyamoto is not a goal in and of itself. Happiness seems to be a natural outcome from a simple life that is free from worry and goes with the flow. [54:04]

Links and resources:

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the Cross Roads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

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