Election

Election: 

this is a high stakes election for many, viewed as one that could change the course of the nation, and emotions are heated on both sides of the political aisle. I obviously have my own preference and most people guess correctly through conversations and my writing. But I don't talk about it as much as I used once did, there's little need as I don't need confirmation and I know that there's little, if any, chance in changing anyone's mind. 

nor do I really wish to.

I simply live my life by values held dear.

kindness.

empathy.

compassion.

forgiveness.

trusting that others will arrive here on their own.

so with this I surrender the results of this election. I will vote, but refuse to take a side that pits me against another. I am not a political party and neither are you. We're family, deeper still, we're heart connected, belonging together as loving thoughts in the single mind of God. There's no way I could ever take a side against you, an impossible task and one I will no longer even entertain. 

whatever the outcome...

I will love you.

happily so. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Love Our Way

Love our way; 

continuing on a political theme here, that really, this is a season of division that has spread wider and deeper than ever before. We're literally and constantly being told who we're supposed to hate and given vague reasons why we must despise them - terms, slogans, and chants - all offered to stir the blood and give rise to our darkest and most violent emotions. 

but no one can truly convince us to hate another. 

those thought reside in us alone.

and it's our responsibility to heal them.

we'll never hate our way to freedom. 

with almost half of any country convinced that there's an enemy within they'll eventually burn themselves completely to the ground and proclaim victory to the ashes. There's really only one alternative to this, a simple solution, although admittedly not initially easy - love those whom we perceive as different, for whatever reason, without a single exception. 

especially those we most strongly disagree with. 

vote against them.

campaign.

even protest if there's a valid reason.

but don't hate.

because it never works.

we can only love our way to healing.

let's try.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Less Inclined

Less inclined: 

I think it's as simple as becoming less insistent, that I no longer need to make my every opinion a central focus and will now gently let it go in support of another. Of course this doesn't mean that I don't hold certain views as more important than others, or that my opinions don't matter. It's just that I'm less inclined to make others wrong in order to support my own claims of self importance.

there's less need to always be right. 

I'd rather be kind.

and so every encounter has now become an opportunity to gently examine my thoughts, allowing myself to settle in to listening to another before of rushing immediately in a counter response. I'm less insistent, kinder, and empathetic...willing to support instead of offering my judgement. 

I'm happier.

and wish the same for others.

it's a simpler path now.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Thank you

Thank you: 

as if every encounter shows me a version of myself in need of understanding - that's been the great opportunity that has blessed me lately, a keen insight that's as Ramana Maharshi said, there are no others, and I truly get to live this now. The key difference for me is that I'm more willing to let go of my own most cherished opinions, not as forceful with my views, and hold my every belief more lightly. I can afford to be kind because I'm simply not invested in maintaining my sense of righteousness.  

or at least not to the extent I once was. 

and this shift has eased me towards kindness.

a more living life unfolds.

what's happening is that as my self-involvement lessens, a much greater sense of Self is then shown, there's a light that's recognized through others that reaches me, deeply so, and I feel a healing extend in all directions, present everywhere, with no possible exclusions. 

I'm returning to the whole.

or more truly,

I'm aware...this is who I've always been.

I just needed you to show me.

thank you. 

~

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A Quiet Revolution

A quiet revolution: 

political season, but then it always feels as if we're now in a perpetual challenge of choosing sides and being asked to divide ourselves against each other. We're watchful and mistrustful of our neighbors motives, concerned about what candidate's sign might be posted in their yard. It's always political season these days it seems. And it's tiresome, deeply so, all the way to the bone level - 

to the point of the soul actually. 

so I'm done.

just like that, 

I refuse to join a side against another, anyone, politically or otherwise. Yes, I have my preference and for good reasons. There's a list of concerns that keep me going to the polls to vote for what I feel are vital challenges to the world. But I also know that the only meaningful change that will truly make any difference is from within ourselves. Until we confront our own inner divide we're simply spinning wheels endlessly, replaying the same scenario through different times.  

what I'm asking for is a quiet revolution. 

but not for anyone else.

this is my own task at hand, a healing opportunity, going within to the very source of my projections that I've placed upon the world. With this action I will change everything, literally so, or at least my own perceptions. A small healing perhaps, but profound -

and a ripple effect place in motion. 

my own quiet revolution.

loving all the world. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Already Healed

Already healed:

so it came to me to heal the world, not my own small portion, but all of it, and beginning right now. That's my agenda, a tall order it might seem, yet we're all called to do the same and we're each the beginning as well as end point of this collective healing. 

it's impossible that one heals alone.

and this is where I start.

it might seem that my healing is personal, my own journey that involves only a few others. A Course in Miracles reminds me that miracles don't take place in isolation, that when one is healed the entire world begins a holy transformation. My healing demonstrates strength, even through me quietness, with an unseen inner-work at play, there is a gentle reach of love that seeks out others. I've been called to heal the world through settling into my own true body of connection, seeing others as myself and offering nothing but a sure and steady forgiveness. 

 and it's from this point that I begin.

my ending place as well.

forgiveness heals any sense of separation.

revealing me as the world...

already healed.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Meaningless Thoughts

Meaningless thoughts: 

lesson 4 in A Course in Miracles tells me that none of my thoughts have any meaning, no hierarchy, not a single one more significant than the other. What I find now, after decades of reading the Course and doing the workbook lessons, is that understanding one point made here is pretty much knowing the entirety of every lesson, and indeed, there'd be no reason to continue further. There's the essence of the message within almost every lesson and sentence.

in fact, this lesson is repeated in similar form more than once.

my thoughts no not mean anything.

lesson 10.

in between these two lessons I'm shown that the reason for this being true is that my thoughts are preoccupied with the past and then projecting them towards the future. The present moment, until this is clearly seen, is largely a receptacle  for my meaningless thoughts. Sadly,as these thoughts then proceed to show me a meaningless world. 

it's here, lesson 10, that a hint of clarity is dropped.

that this idea will help release me from all that I now believe. 

finally.

a glimpse of freedom shown.

from this point on the world makes sense, or begins too.

I've created the world I see, meaningless thoughts of past judgments and beliefs have trapped me in an illusory world, my own creation and only my present state of love can move me away from this imprisonment. 

it's about remembering who, and what...

I am.

as easy as that. 

~

Peace, Eric

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Demands

Demands: 

I like that words are given easily now to me now, that I only have to show up to the page and ask what's to be written for this morning, to wait, patiently, and then write only what is heard. It's a small lesson for the rest of my life to follow, allowing my own demands to be less of an agenda and to surrender to the days easy flow. Of course the ego still attempts to call the shots, being difficult to please and insisting that everything goes a specific way. 

but at least I know it's no longer in charge.

that there are options here.

a deeper, 

quieter voice.

and that's the one I listen to more often now.

beginning each morning...

listening.

writing.

making no demands.

~

Peace, Eric 

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The Message

The Message: 

the message is my own - meaning even as it's filtered through the teachings of A Course in Miracles, or decades of studying the psychology and philosophy of yoga, it is still entirely an insight arriving past these helpful barriers and providing something unique to only me. Even if it's theme is universal. The inspiration given, the silent language of its whisper, and the words used in my translation...

those are for myself alone. 

only I can share them.

and so it is for us each of us, we are all given a silent directive, a whisper from eternity that guides us on our way through life. It's inspiration, the Holy Spirit, or whatever term we wish to use. But the language of the message itself is unique to you, it's yours, and it wishes to be expressed, shared in some personal and meaningful way. 

we're meant to be artist.

expressive.

listening to a holy voice as it whispers inspiration...

and then we share this with the world.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Undone

Undone; 

starting with negation, right from the beginning A Course in Miracles states that our entire thinking process is wrong and doesn't even explain why. We are asked to trust. What's assumed here is that we've been led to this teaching by our own frustration with life, whatever degree of suffering we've endured has been enough to cause us to explore another option. 

so we begin a process of undoing.

finally.

and with this we strip away the first layer, asking us to look around our present surroundings and state that nothing we see has any true meaning of its own. There was a time, several starting points actually, that I never made it past this very first lesson. Too many things claimed a portion of my mind, meaningful, in deeply personal ways. 

of course that didn't matter.

nothing I saw had any inherent meaning of its own.

everything assigned value by my mind.

and it all had to be undone...

then seen anew.

shining in the light of absolute love.

~Peace, Eric

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A Holy Idea

 

a holy idea...breathed into 

existence -

and thus I am.

~

this again leads us to the tenet that ideas leave not their source, that it's impossible for us to be separate from God, and that, more so, the world itself is not apart from us. Everything exists within a divine mind and anything that doesn't appear to us as holy is simply a self created illusion, a projection of our own belief of somehow being separate from the source. 

so we don't seek to change the world,

but only our projections.

and only then do we see the true idea of reality.

 being seamless.

existing wholly as the mind of God.

  having never left the source.

~

peace, Eric 

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Ideas

Ideas: 

a central theme throughout A Course in Miracles is that ideas leave not their source, that a thought itself is never separate from the mind and only the effects seem apart from it. With this in mind we see that the world is an effect of our perceptions, created through continuous thought and maintained by a belief systems that's largely unexamined. 

our world is made of mind stuff. 

however, based on fear, guilt of our apparent separation, we have only created an illusory world that's filled with much sorrow and struggle. A misuse of our true power. But a change is possible, it's simple, and only takes a bit of our attention. 

let's just make another world.

simple.

we've created an illusory world based upon misperception, meaning that our perceptions have missed the mark of reality. So here we are. Yet it only takes a mind-shift for reality to show through, that beyond this world is another already made from the mind of love. 

ideas leave not their Source. 

we are an idea in the mind of God.

existing already as love.

and that's the world of our true creation.

we only need look deeper.

and see...that beyond illusion - 

only love is real. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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A Happier Dream

A happier Dream: 

it's now a happier dream, maybe not fully so yet, but unfolding in that direction with each encounter with another and every situation that calls for my surrender. That's enough for me, these little opportunities to extend myself as love and be part of a much larger healing. 

there's no need for a final awakening.

not just yet.

a happy dream is enough. 

and this occurs through my surrender, a complete acceptance of what each moment delivers and to turn it all over to a greater will than my own. This isn't an abdication of power, no, it's a reclaiming of my own true status as a willing son of God. What's surrendered is only the ego's hold, giving up any sense of struggle that this particular moment could be any other way than what's unfolding now. 

thy will be done.

sincerely so.

with this, a happier dream begins, one that still holds challenges, certainly, but now easier to let go of and an abiding faith that I will meet each challenge with love and a smile. That's all it takes for a happier dream, a formula for success, that I'm not entitled to the fruits of my actions, only the present and my ability to respond. 

and with this, my one and only goal -

is love.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Breath and Posture

Breath and posture:

I am now taking the gentlest approach to yoga, an easiness of both breath and posture, no longer concerned with the length of time an asana is held, and being led by an inner sense of stillness for each breath and pose. I'm letting go of the yoga I once lived before, the striving, using my body as a means of transcendence and hoping for the end result of enlightenment.

content with the gentleness of breath and posture...

and how my life proceeds from here.

~

Peace, Eric 

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True Perception

True perception: 

so we could say that forgiveness is simply true perception, a short cut through illusions to the reality of original innocence, a means of seeing what is deeper than our errors. How we perceive each other now is through a wounded and fearful mind. We have projected our hurt upon the world, creating an illusion of guilt and separation that will only be healed through the gentleness of true perception.

seeing each other as we truly are.

and forgiving...

all along the way.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Every Loving Thought

Every loving thought: 

it's pretty simple, easy even, and yet even at this point it's still difficult to remember - A Course in Miracles very succinctly tells me that every loving thought is true and that everything else is an appeal for help and healing, regardless of the form it takes. 

that's it.

the entirety of my forgiving path. 

I am here only to love.

to be kind.

this, of course, is only difficult to practice from the ego's perspective, as it perceives every confrontation as a personal challenge to be overcome by force. But true power comes from gentleness, and the ability to love myself and through every interaction provides an unshakable invulnerability in the face of everything that appears as an attack. To transform these events into an opportunity to witness my own true power of surrender, instantly letting go of even the slightest need to attack - it's indeed a gift, a holy instant, and I am blessed with these moments of practice.   

so my practice:

every loving thought is true.

anything else....

is a simply a reminder.

~

Love, Eric

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Aftereffect

Aftereffect: 

so I wish to do with my life the same as previously done with my writing, a complete surrender to a creativity much greater than my own, a divine talent that guides me purely by inspiration. For several years now I've had faith that just the right words would arrive each morning, no fear of writers block and an assurance that, if patient, the perfect words would always appear. This has paid off with an easiness of writing, relaxed, and a calm sense that these early mornings are meant for listening, a contemplative time, and that writing is simply an aftereffect of my surrender.

and now I wish to offer myself completely...

inspired.

a contemplative life.

with everything else an aftereffect of my surrender.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Grandeur

Grandeur: 

we're simply asked to note the difference, being always the same, yet cloaked through various expression of life and so easily overlooked. A Course in Miracles calls this the grandeur of God versus the grandiosity of ego, how the first causes illusions to drop away and the other brings us deeper into our own self importance. 

grandeur is reality.

it's the absence of an individual sense of self.

and we're left in awe with every notice.

grandiosity is a puff of self worship, it covers a deep despair of loneliness and fear, masking our false belief of separation with forceful bravado. We could just call it ego. It's always small and calls us to display our littleness with a purpose that's harmful to the world, keeping us trapped in illusion that has no room for the actuality of love. 

yet grandiosity will part for the light of truth.

and reality always shines through. 

grandeur is our nature.

it's who we are.

we're simply asked to note the difference between illusion and reality...

choosing only what is real.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Give Away

Give away:

at this time in my life I wish for quiet, a contemplative life, and to not rejoin the rush of busyness that seems to accompany today's reality. I'm fortunate with few needs, just the maintenance of a paid home and the bills and taxes that go along with that. However, of course, there is still need of income and I'm attempting to earn this through my own creative means. 

mainly, through talking, if that's at all possible. Honestly, I'm not sure it is, it's a chance as well as opportunity to see if extending love truly provides. I'm both excited and scared to see how this grand experiment of giving and receiving will unfold. 

it's my own surrender experiment.

and now we'll see...

what I truly have to give away.

~

Peace, Eric 

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One Light

One light: 

what we're seeing now is an expansion of fear, war spreading through the world, political discord causing neighbors to be distrustful of each other and families split apart over heated issues. I have no answers here, not politically so at least - but I do believe the antidote to fear is love. 

and so that is what I offer.

as best I'm able.

A Course in Miracles states that the opposite of fear is love, yet also, what is all encompassing truly has no opposite and this is all that has to be realized. To get this is to understand the entirety of the Course, and then we only have to live it, demonstrating it to ourselves until; the message spreads further. This is done quietly so, softly, and with the courage of introspection. The inquiry is always in asking if we're extending love or choosing fear, forgiving ourselves for our forgetfulness, and then simply remembering once again to offer only love. 

a simple, easy inquiry.

and life provides the means for our practice.

it seems to me, that this is truly the only way to heal the world. It's up to me, a small part, yes, but it's the first light that extends itself to others. It's up to you, the first light too, and I will accept the love you offer - and in this way we heal the world.

one light at a time. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Bare Essentials

Bare essentials: 

it's now reduced to just a few simple things, like the simplicity of breath and the gentle stretch of body, a quiet, contemplative moment or two, kindness to all, gratefulness, and being able to forgive myself and others -that's the entirety of my spiritual path. 

nothing more is needed. 

at a certain point in life, or so it has been for me, everything else is let go of, all but these few essential practices are maintained, and truly, they're not really a practice. They're more an expression of my deepest, surest self that's now offered to the world.

I'm no longer interested in acquiring more knowledge. 

it's time to give myself away

 down to the point of bare essentials.

and live my life from here.

~

Peace, Eric

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Complete Reversal

Complete reversal: 

what's asked for is a complete reversal, turning entirely away from all that the ego offers, arriving to another way to view the world. We are asked to know and listen to the Holy Spirit only. This is foreign to us only to a small degree, initially, but then quickly males sense as a greater peace is found. The Holy Spirit, as offered here, isn't an entity that forces its way upon us, it's our own most quiet voice, familiar and intimate. We've known this voice our whole lives but have shouted it down in favor of a quick approval by ego. 

yet now, familiar once more...

we listen,

and forgive.

truly so. 

the ego forgives only through conditions, false bargains traded between us, that I pardon you for a certain misbehavior that offends me in some self important way. The Holy Spirit calls for a complete reversal of this thinking. There is no error here, only innocence that's been presently forgotten, and all that's asked of us is to remember, to see correctly that we're all sinless and already forgiven. 

we're asked to see each  others through the eyes of Love

that's all. 

it's not impossible, in fact, it's how we already see the world. We've just fogged the view temporarily, seeing clouds instead of our true clear sky nature. The Holy Spirit gently wipes the clouds away, a voice whispering through the fog, guiding , urging us to remember that we already reside in original innocence, untouched by clouds or fog.  

so yes, a complete reversal, 

but also a return.

forgiveness is just remembering...

who we truly are, 

~

Peace, Eric

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Illusory World

Illusory world: 

I don't necessarily believe the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles, and after decades of study the language still doesn't always resonate with me. But the simplicity and practicality of its message, the clear directive to forgive deeply and continuously, making no distinctions as to the size of grievances - there's been no greater gift to me than this practice.

an illusory world makes sense in a certain way, fitting nicely along side the thought of maya, as well as putting the onus of awakening squarely on my very shoulders. I am an idea in the mind of God, yet asleep and dreaming of a troubled existence. There it is, a nice cosmology, that God didn't create a meaningless world, I did, collectively with others and now our responsibility is to awaken. 

I like a clear directive.

but it doesn't have to be true.

even if it is.

so for my own peace of mind, my sanity really, my role is only to forgive. I don't have to believe anything other than the immediate peace that's found through this quiet practice, making no announcements, just gently extending myself through the world, healing, surrendering,

illusory world or otherwise...

I forgive. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Catching On

Catching on: 

there's a certain impossibility to forgiveness, it so often seems far beyond control, as if time itself plays a vital role in preparing us to let go, and nothing will budge us in that direction until it's decided that we're ready. Except that time has already surrendered its hold on our resentments, every judgement is a thought that must be repeatedly brought back to mind - 

and truthfully,

our wounds have already healed,

everything's forgiven.

we just haven't caught on...

at least not yet.

so really, forgiveness is simply the recognition of what's actually present right now, the innocence of this moment -and then residing here without intrusion from the illusions of the past. More so, it's offering this same recognition to others, a shared innocence, inviting them to a similar forgiveness. That's it, there's nothing more to be done...we're healed.

already.

only now we're catching on.

~

Peace, Eric

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Clear Directive

Clear directive: 

I love how I'm given a clear directive, to no longer seek to change the world but to now look upon my own projections and how they show this world to me. The responsibility is entirely upon me. collectively too, and yet the advent of a great healing starts here, my own inner change to save the world. 

and it all starts this very moment. 

a Course in Miracle states that perception is result and not the cause, in which case we are viewing the results of our own miscreation. It's literally a landscape of the mind projected outward. We've spent lifetimes attempting to fix results and all the while the very cause of these effects continues to run free, creating more and greater chaos through the years. 

we heal the world from within.

and it begins with me.

I love this clear directive. 

as well, I'm also told exactly how to go about this healing, that I'm to ask for no less for a miracle, a healing of my own mind through the means of deep forgiveness. This, then, is what I what I offer to the world, my own healing, my own forgiveness...

extending myself as love from this point on. 

a clear directive.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Always

Always:

it seems a joyful surrender now, that life has brought be here for the sole purpose of a continuous letting go of everything that previously seemed so important. Of course many of these things still matter to me, some are cherished and I would mourn there loss - but that's the secret to surrender, it's a deep realization that what is truly ours is never lost in the most important sense. 

the essence of  all that we treasure remains within the heart.

always.

what' we surrender is only fear,

a belief...

that love itself could ever be lost.

and once this is seen clearly - 

we're free.

knowing only love remains.

always. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Choose Love

Choose love: 

the question that I sometimes given on social media is to make a choice between Israel or Palestine, sometimes followed by why I don't discuss such issues now that I have a small platform on YouTube to share my views. And they're correct, I generally don't give my views and especially on complex geopolitical  problems that are so far beyond my understanding. 

as well, the phrasing of the question leaves me without an answer.

there are no sides in suffering.

and that's our thinking right now, on so many issues, that there's an actual choice to be made against another,  believing that actual sides exist, and that compassion for all is too far fetched to even consider. I don't have an answer, at least not one that would really satisfy anyone. Yet I do know what to choose and it's a always my own personal choice of peace, not through any grand gesture, but just a quiet retreat to my deepest self and then to extend myself as love throughout the world. 

one person at a time. 

so for me, that's all I can do, but maybe you're much smarter and more capable than I am, and if so, than I hope you're able to play a role in bringing peace to such a troubled world. What I do know is that no change will be lasing until we each achieve a sense of true inner peace. I know that love, a true love without conditions offered, will be the only possible solution. 

and it starts with you. 

me too. 

I'm doing my part right now, quietly so, gently, forgiving my way through the world. We teach peace individually, and it seems to take a very long time to reach others. But that's not our concern, we have an entire lifetime to spread this message. First though, and always after, it begins right now, you, me, and the love that's shared between us. Until this happens - no other peace will be achieved. 

so let's begin right now.

let's choose love.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Calling

Calling: 

it's love that calls to me, asking for my return from every single thought of separation that occurs, patiently so, gently, and now I'm happy to oblige. It's an easier journey this time around. For many years, decades actually, I battled with ego, concerned with it's hold on me, wishing truly to relinquish it and live a life free from its demands. Of course the fight, as well as my wish for liberation, were simply a battleground of  the ego, just another false struggle that I refused to acknowledge and let go. Ego is so often subtle in its appearance. 

and will win every battle against it.

yet more subtle still is the reality of love, always present, patient, and willing to allow my return from every struggle. Love reminds me that there doesn't have to be a battle, that there's no actual enemy here and that ego doesn't have to be banished as any sign of victory. That's the incessant call I hear, the softest voice of love that whispers to me, urging me to remember that I can always let go of any struggle and simply relax within the reality of its embrace.

and finally, 

finally...

I hear that call so clearly now.

completely letting go.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Our Loneliness

Our loneliness: 

there's a certain quality to our loneliness, a holiness really, an ache that calls for us to explore, as if we're finally given a clear directive to turn within and discover who we truly are. It's with this that I've come to love myself, with the past few years being largely reclusive and mostly by choice. My loneliness has led me home, slowly, a breath at a time it sometimes seems. 

but I'm here now. 

and find there's nowhere else I could possible be. 

I've actually been here all along.

hidden by my own wish to escape this loneliness.

completely missing the holiness of it's call.

yet now I know for certain...

I'm not along at all.

~

Peace, Eric 

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All The Way

All the way: 

eventually, everything's forgiven, and the world is seen a different way. That's the promise at least, or the hope that we hold out for as we practice forgiveness. There might be the thought that as we proceed though life this way, transforming all that we perceived with a gentle focus on letting go of the fear that we've projected - there might be a thought that we will arrive somewhere, enlightened and aware, perhaps being truly at peace with ourselves and the world. 

a realization of who we truly are.

everything forgiven. 

one.

I'm not sure if we need that hope, or if it even serves our highest value. For me, I'm without goal now, finally, being completely at home within my practice. I'm just happy to forgive. Zen master Dogen Zenji has a wonderful thought on this, that the practice of meditation is not a method for the attainment of self realization - it is enlightenment itself. Or as St. Catherine of Siena said: 

all the way to heaven is heaven. 

forgiving is the path of peace. 

It's enlightenment itself. 

 so really, there's no endgame to our practice, life continues with its frustrations, pain, and sorrows. And we'll continue to forgive, on going, committed...

bringing peace along the way.

all the way to heaven.

~

Peace, Eric 

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