Seeking

Seeking: 

this is in defense of seeking, practice, and of devotion to a greater cause - it's spiritual call not to transcend the everyday, but to fully be immersed in the art of truly living. This is simply the examination of who we are, letting go of concerns we take as priority and shift our focus to the needs of connection, realizing that life is better served when we are most connected to each other, connected to the world and nature, and certainly when we are connected to our own hearts, listening to the truth and beauty that it urges us to remember. We're not seeking anything that's found outside of ourselves, nothing that doesn't already belong to us now, this very instant that we turn and face inwards. 

this isn't the frantic energy of one who is lost and is without direction - we are relaxed in our own presence, at home already, and what we seek is no less than the display of God in every detail of the world, our own reflection of the eternal in all that's temporary in appearance. 

we're seeking perfection in the flawed, beauty through aspects seen as less appealing to the eyes, and truth beyond our thoughts and words. It's seeking not because any of this ever absent, but only to find the well hidden and disguised aspects of ourselves that escape our heart's detection, we seek to heal what's unacknowledged, and accept ourselves as whole.

and our practice is simply, it's relaxed, and it's nothing more that whatever brings us joy through the moment of enactment. It's this joy that carries over to the daily points of living, deepening our connections, showing as grace through every interaction. Our practice is meditation, forgiveness, dancing, being a parent and caring for a child. It's really all that easy, without any complications - our practice is to be surrendered for the sake of love, through whatever means it seeks to find us. 

here, too, is our devotion, for just this moment alone, nothing more, or beyond whatever appears right now. This too is an easy surrender, we are devoted to what's present even as it changes to something other, knowing that life itself is motion, and our true devotion is only to the living. We are devoted to motion, as well as the stillness that allows it, seeing that one is not truly separate from the other. This devotion happens on it's own, without our will or effort. Our only role is see, to remember, and again to be surrendered for the sake of love and its cause of motion. 

this is in defense of seeking, practice, devotion, and these words aren't meant to address anyone who believes they're beyond the need to hear. It's my description of what seems to happen completely on its own, an energy that guides my inspiration. Really, these words are for myself alone, and my surrender is found within its sharing. 

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Peace, Eric