Just a Mindful Grace

 Just a mindful grace:

no more aware than this, right now, and all the moment holds - nothing more is added to awareness itself, there is no state of attainment to bring me closer to what's known. Yet with this simple realization the world opens to be explored. It's a new eagerness now, a sense of intimacy with what unfolds to my attention. Without wait there is always something, an experience of the senses - objects appearing in seamless vision, sounds emerging from a silent field, and the press of air felt against me. I find myself aware of it all without effort, just a mindful grace of noting what's now present with no need to make it more, to adjust the experience with any expectations. 

to be free - knowing there's no limits to what appears, everything in agenda with a mystery of its own, and my only course of action is to allow, respond, and allow still more. Life continues in its offer of experiences, a ceaseless flow of wonder, tragedy, joy and sorrow. To be aware offers no escape and none is needed. It's simply accepting what comes in the order that it's given, no bypassing an event that's found displeasing, nor making a wish for things to be other. Life changes on its own. What I am from is my own demands, and even their appearance give little concern, they belong in the same right as everything else that comes along, an aspect of life that I'm aware of. 

again, there is no effort to this, and it's not a magic fix to heal what might feel broken - it's life occurring as it's meant to, full, complete in the details of what's well lived. Nothing is excluded. Yet with this there does seem to come a certain sense of ease, surrendering any resistance to what's present now, and that it all happens on its own without intent or willful urge from me. This is aware, life, observing it's own participation. I cannot ever be more aware than I am in this moment. It's all found right here, now, and always. 

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Peace, Eric