In The Only Way

 In the only way:

and from this comes compassion - it's just seeing that it all belongs in the only way the world could be right now, coming to this point from infinite choices taken alone and together. This is what we have, and I find through my own recognition of this, my capacity to open to the world, that everything is shared in some important way. My ache is yours, although we may break at different points. There is only our suffering, and too just one joy. What brings us here may differ - but it's all shared, a universal depth of consciousness. 

this is simply being human, that there is certain truth that life holds for each of us. We will all touch upon suffering. The things we love are fragile, designed to be cherished but not for long. We all break. My humanness recognizes yours. It's what we share. 

to see this, is to be aware - awakening doesn't remove me from concern for the world, not from it's least aspect to larger issues happening now. It's all one world and it all calls for me to care. To see - is to love in its truest sense, inclusion, of how the view is an embrace of always one more thing, seamless and ongoing. There is no line that shows me a different world for you, that your suffer ends here and mine begins somewhere other. We are shared. Life, happening together. 

that is all belongs in the only way the world could be right now - it's our common bond. We find life just the way it is, so often uncertain, always changing, shifting in both loss and sense of something new. It's our shared mystery. From this comes compassion - yes, we may see the world very differently, but there is always, only, one view. 

it's ours. 

~

Peace, Eric