I wrote this post on FB awhile back.
In between the spaces
In between the spaces is where you truly live
Between that task and this
Betwixt those busy thoughts you claim as your identity
Around those things that populate our lives
YOU exist in that space that floods around
And surrounds.
In the quiet, the acceptance of what is
The only true present there is
Where there is no time
In the stillness of just being.
Actually, it's not accurate to say in between the spaces, it's actually in the spaces between whatever....but it sounds good poetically I guess..
anyway, I recently read someone's story, man I wish I could remember where/who, but it referred to the idea that love isn't actually in us, it's outside. Now this is antithesis to my learning....I've been learning not to look for love outside, not to look to others to fill that hole. But this idea isn't that, it's that love is everywhere....it's IN the spaces. (or it IS the spaces?) We spend so much time and effort trying to find and get love from other people. We have this idea of what that has to look like. What if we are limiting ourselves with those ideas? What if what we are looking for, is already there? Right there. Right here....in those spaces, between the electrons flying around the nucleus all the way to the space around the stars. In those curious patterns repeated from DNA strands to nautilus shells to orbiting moons.....think you this all a mistake or a grand coincidence? The Great Mystery (picked that up from a Tara Brach talk) is cohesive in it's beauty, consistent in all it offers. And what it offers is love, in an infinity of ways. You just have to be willing to receive and accept it.
That sweet air you breath, the warm nourishing sun on your face, the refreshing hydrating water you drink, touch, bath in....the smile of a child, the laugh of a friend.....the amazing fact that your body is such an incredible efficient machine. The miracle that you are here! Here now, experiencing ANY of this! How can you not be amazed just to be alive?
I don't know....in writing this, I was thinking to address that people love in many different ways. What trips us up is our expectations of what that love should look like. For instance, our parents should be warm, supporting, caring people, always there for us unconditionally. But can you have compassion for them in knowing that they suffer just like you do? And that in that suffering, they may fail you? (or seem to) People love in the ways they know how, many from behaviors learned in mistaking need for love. Which leads me to my thought earlier.....do we love or ARE we love? If we are love, isn't our every action one of love? (oh that brings up some arguments, huh? Because yeah, those expectations again) Our very existence is an expression of love in truth and all we really have to do is just BE. (interesting I circled back to that, as I have so many times and didn't expect to find here)
Our human experience would offer up arguments right now. But what about all the ugliness, the destruction, the hate, the pain in the world? A vast majority of that can be chalked up to the cycle of, well, everything. Everything changes, and sometimes it ends, and we as humans have decided that's a bad thing, when in reality, it's just a thing. Things change. Now, is there some true ugliness in the world? Yes, some individuals have done some awful things. Human suffering has lead some to destructive actions because they see it as the only way to alleviate that pain or to control it. This isn't because those things that cause pain shouldn't happen, they HAVE to happen, it's because we aren't ok with feeling that suffering, that pain. We push it away and hate it and want to be anywhere else. It must be embraced, it's part of the human experience. Indeed, it must be loved. Because the "bad" happens too. We don't have to accept that as our only reality, as our "truth". It's a cell, a nucleus.....our truth--is in that space. In those spaces, where love lives, and at any point, you can retreat to those spaces, breath it in and know you are truly surrounded by love.
In between the spaces
In between the spaces is where you truly live
Between that task and this
Betwixt those busy thoughts you claim as your identity
Around those things that populate our lives
YOU exist in that space that floods around
And surrounds.
In the quiet, the acceptance of what is
The only true present there is
Where there is no time
In the stillness of just being.
Actually, it's not accurate to say in between the spaces, it's actually in the spaces between whatever....but it sounds good poetically I guess..
anyway, I recently read someone's story, man I wish I could remember where/who, but it referred to the idea that love isn't actually in us, it's outside. Now this is antithesis to my learning....I've been learning not to look for love outside, not to look to others to fill that hole. But this idea isn't that, it's that love is everywhere....it's IN the spaces. (or it IS the spaces?) We spend so much time and effort trying to find and get love from other people. We have this idea of what that has to look like. What if we are limiting ourselves with those ideas? What if what we are looking for, is already there? Right there. Right here....in those spaces, between the electrons flying around the nucleus all the way to the space around the stars. In those curious patterns repeated from DNA strands to nautilus shells to orbiting moons.....think you this all a mistake or a grand coincidence? The Great Mystery (picked that up from a Tara Brach talk) is cohesive in it's beauty, consistent in all it offers. And what it offers is love, in an infinity of ways. You just have to be willing to receive and accept it.
That sweet air you breath, the warm nourishing sun on your face, the refreshing hydrating water you drink, touch, bath in....the smile of a child, the laugh of a friend.....the amazing fact that your body is such an incredible efficient machine. The miracle that you are here! Here now, experiencing ANY of this! How can you not be amazed just to be alive?
I don't know....in writing this, I was thinking to address that people love in many different ways. What trips us up is our expectations of what that love should look like. For instance, our parents should be warm, supporting, caring people, always there for us unconditionally. But can you have compassion for them in knowing that they suffer just like you do? And that in that suffering, they may fail you? (or seem to) People love in the ways they know how, many from behaviors learned in mistaking need for love. Which leads me to my thought earlier.....do we love or ARE we love? If we are love, isn't our every action one of love? (oh that brings up some arguments, huh? Because yeah, those expectations again) Our very existence is an expression of love in truth and all we really have to do is just BE. (interesting I circled back to that, as I have so many times and didn't expect to find here)
Our human experience would offer up arguments right now. But what about all the ugliness, the destruction, the hate, the pain in the world? A vast majority of that can be chalked up to the cycle of, well, everything. Everything changes, and sometimes it ends, and we as humans have decided that's a bad thing, when in reality, it's just a thing. Things change. Now, is there some true ugliness in the world? Yes, some individuals have done some awful things. Human suffering has lead some to destructive actions because they see it as the only way to alleviate that pain or to control it. This isn't because those things that cause pain shouldn't happen, they HAVE to happen, it's because we aren't ok with feeling that suffering, that pain. We push it away and hate it and want to be anywhere else. It must be embraced, it's part of the human experience. Indeed, it must be loved. Because the "bad" happens too. We don't have to accept that as our only reality, as our "truth". It's a cell, a nucleus.....our truth--is in that space. In those spaces, where love lives, and at any point, you can retreat to those spaces, breath it in and know you are truly surrounded by love.
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