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A man asked a monk, who was walking down the road, "Sir, where are you going?" The monk replied, "The most important place I can go. Nowhere."
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The person who feels deep yearning for Grace is remembering the Natural Home. Every errant effort to satisfy the longing witnesses to the correctness of the longing. Yet, the misdirection is misdirection from the unfolding of the Word. Aspiration misapplied is itself a creation from the Source; all breathing derives from the Breath.
We only aspire one breath at a time. We only experience spiritual desire in this moment. If we enjoy being in and from the Wonderful Presence, this moment is the moment for that Love: there is nowhere else you need to go to meet this Love, the Love is already in this moment of longing for Love. This Love is, literally, no-where, so every-where.
Being in Being is Being~with. So,...
Grace is not out there somewhere.
In Presence there is no there.
not in the past or future.
no past or future.
not here now.
no here or now.
Then, where and when shall I meet this Beloved?
Forget the "I" and the "Beloved"
return to the Fount of Life
drink of the waters of Sweet Communion.
Shall I see this One?
Look in the mirror~
You are a ray of the Sun of Sublimity!
Already, One
is everywhere
waiting for you
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©Brian Kenneth Wilcox 2017. Brian is a Hospice Chaplain, living out his vow to serve all living beings by serving those preparing to die and their friends and family. Brian lives a vowed life, alone in a quasi-hermitic life, and integrates varied religions, but most especially the contemplative paths of Buddhism and his native faith, Christianity. Brian received a 'mystical' Christ-experience at age 9, and was introduced to a peace untouched by pain and suffering. Later, in his mid-30s, after surviving a dark night of despair, Brian was vowed to a contemplative Christian way of life on St. Matthew's Feast day, 1995, by Greenbough House of Prayer, in Georgia, USA. This began many years of ardent reading, spiritual practice, and exploration of many spiritual paths, including publication of his book An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love. The Journey has led Brian to the joy beyond the ache, a contentment in experiential union with Grace. Brian lives with the affirmation that Love, not as emotion but Divine Presence, transcends all paths of religion and is our Source and Destination. As St. Paul writes in the Christian Bible, "Now remain always, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love." Peace to All!
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