What you are seeking is with you now

I have a question.
Are you willing to connect with what is present?
You may be surfing the web, reading, commenting, journeying through your emotions, seeking something which you can't quite define? Until you feel resonance, all manner of form and experience will serve you well as distraction and entertainment.

You have a conversation with a friend or your partner, perhaps a neighbor in your street and what does it matter what is in the words when you are communing with that person through the heart? It is only that there is a sense of something missing when formality or etiquette takes precedence over content. But isn't that what our words are designed to do, to give form to or structure to an experience which is known or is felt? It is a mechanism which works well when ideas or thoughts are being conveyed - transmitted and received, truly it is technology or sophisticated machinery at its best. Yes, it is the machinery of the mind. But if you are sensitive and are willing to witness, this technology of the mind and of perception doesn't reach deeply into or is able to grasp enough of what you sense as eternal mystery and presence. So there is awareness of that which precedes form and is unable to be conveyed through words.

How are we supposed to reconcile this awareness of what precedes and that which is present in some form before us? Oftentimes, we don't, as we're trained from birth to adjust to the superficial and to accept it as the norm. It is a precious moment in which we glimpse the eternal in another and they in us as we awaken to the sacred. Concepts of transcendence, ascension or enlightenment, as detailed as they are, can only point to this. We bridge two worlds through our being - the form and the infinite, woven as one through our heart. Which is why when we meet and experience with another, we sometimes lose sight of the relationship and focus instead on the forms or the structures, so that afterwards, we wonder why our experience seems incomplete. It is not that anything was or could ever be missing from what is present, only that what we had chosen to focus upon in any moment or to acknowledge to ourselves was only half of the picture, of reality as it is.

Our will is what blinds and binds us, nothing more. The mind takes us by the hand and helps us learn how to focus upon and to contemplate what is before us. There is an invitation always, to grow and to move beyond the steady assurance of the mind, of how we think things are to what is. Just like moving from childhood into adulthood. We know transition of the body very well. It is after all, familiar and predictable, whilst our being is not that which we can navigate. We have grown used to the shadows on the wall of our cave and call that real and so we resist awakening, because it is unfamiliar and indefinable to the mind.

It is being which transcends time and form and words. We are so rarely present and yet it is the jewel of life which we seek. All roads ultimately point towards home. Recognition is our key.