What we long for is always present, hiding in plain sight.
*David Rynick. This Truth Never Fails.
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She says how she enjoyed the talk. She says, "I'm not sure I get the point. You know, maybe it's like how it comes to you later after you think on it for a time." Smiling, I say, "Maybe that is the point." She looks up at me, "What do you mean?" Laughing, I say, "Maybe, there is no point. Maybe, that is the point."
in the moment free of knowledge appears natural, spontaneous intelligence - though it is so is already - the dead past is not imposing itself on the ever-living present
in the newly-born present this pure action is freedom never carried over from the past arising anew now
This now is not a now in contrast to a not-now or other nows that was or will be. In time, what was was now, what will be is now. There is only one moment. Traits: spontaneity, intimacy, pure subjectivity, nonspatiality, nonlinearity.
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Living with the Silence, you find yourself speaking and acting more from no purpose at all. We have been driven so by purpose, this is a slow adjustment for us. We, presently, find it confusing to think of a productive not purpose-driven life. We struggle to trust the aliveness always present right here, a here that is so the same wherever and whenever we are.
You will find a way of being no longer pushed along by having to reach a goal. You may reach goals. Yet, you will not be defined by meeting goals, nor will they be shoving you along hurriedly to prove something or be something.
You know Life has no purpose attached to it, so you know the joy of acting in the moment with no attachment to purpose. You enjoy being part of the flowing of Life flowing free of the hurried rush to become, to get, to get to.
A river flows naturally, without need; blessed are you in union with this needless now. You may be acting or speaking; but in Pure Love, this is like dancing to dance or dancing because you enjoy dancing. You just dance, and your dancing invites others to dance, too, enjoying the dance with you.
Your dance may make a difference in and for others but you know you are not the difference maker and do not want to be - you realize you are no one playing the role of someone.
We prayerfully dispose ourselves to be carried along at the edge of the known, like being borne on the crest of a wave by the power of the wave. Grace is the Wave and the Power. Living from prayerful Silence, we learn a graceful way of being and - it is right here, now.
*Use of photography is allowed accompanied by credit given to Brian K. Wilcox and title and place of photographs.
*Brian's book, An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major online booksellers or the publisher AuthorHouse.
