This All Embracing All (A Call to Weird)

these are not normal times, indeed, they're troubling in ways the majority of us have never been confronted with - and yet, in reality, there's been no real normal, no time without suffering present but pushed to shadows and ignored. We've glossed over impending disaster from the small of life disrupted by personal loss, to the large of climate change and now pandemic. It's easier to glide through life without this focus and natural to simply allow the days to unfold without added complications. Life is so often difficult and there's no need to bring attention to every detail that may happen. And that's not what this is about -

there are no normal times. Ever. There are just moments strung together that we're used to. Reality itself is strange, a mystery not reveling its every secret. And that's our hope and good fortune. We don't need normal. It's nice to rest in its temporary comfort but even this is an illusion of a lasting time. Here's the key - we, right now, are an embrace of already occurring, constant, chaos. We are the very thing we fear. We are change, disorder, a storm of thought and form gathered through an empty field. It's what we already are at present, and there's no need to be scared of our true self. Yet even fear is simply a factor of this great belong, another aspect of the storm. It's all embraced -without effort or concern by what we are. 

so here it is - a sirens call to weird. Be what you are. In this all inclusive embrace, our reality, we see that compassion is the element that allows it all to be. To find our true self in any time of chaos or peace is to simply look at what's allowed by virtue of its presence. If it's here - it belong for whatever length of stay its been given. We've embrace -already, instantly, infinitely through our compassion. And it happened entirely on it's own. Don't strive for normal, it was always, only an illusion seen through time. We have this moment, for however long it will last - normal or not, it's just what is. Our only role is to be exactly what we are. This all embracing all. 

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Peace,

Eric