Because I Am - And Nothing Is Apart From Me

because I am - it's this existence alone that's my concern and as such not a thing can be excluded. To exist is a seamless extension of just one thing disguised in varied form. There are no lines to distinguish mine from yours, and in truth only the words we use define our separation. I am - and from this view the world continues. I find your appearance in this existence as you'll find mine in yours - yet we can't exist apart, there isn't a separate belonging for both of us. There's only presence, only one existence. 

This is the source of our compassion - I care because I am, and in this no one, not one thing, can be found to be apart from me. 

Love,

Eric 

In Full Allowance To What Is

it's how things are, right now - and in this moment can't be otherwise. This is where peace is found, not in the absence of storm and chaos, nor faith in an underlying changeless realm - no, peace is our presence that is in full allowance to what is. That things will change is a given, and belief beyond this only leads to mysteries that continue to unfold. 

No faith is required. 

Actions is spontaneous,

intuitive. 

It's all seamless - and even our argument for things to be otherwise, our demands against reality, and turning away from what the moment holds, they all belong exactly as they are. 

Until they don't. 

And then another moment simply comes along...

~

Peace,

Eric 

That It Occurred At All

this moment is all that it allows - nothing exceeding the exactness of what is held and for its length of stay. This is perfection, not our opinion of what occurs, but only the fact that it occurred at all, and no demands were made within reality to accept it. 

It's life - happening. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Our Own Fragile Beauty

this is where beauty is found - here, this tender moment, allowing of itself to break wide for whatever may appear. Nothing is excluded. To see this is to find the true depth of beauty, the fragility of what occurs is matched by our own brief appearance. In this light a flower's decline from full blossom is the beauty of its entirety, already it is complete in its becoming while still transforming to the seasons call. Beauty is found here, right now - or not at all. Aware, we simply note that everything is appearing exactly, and only, as it's fully able, for it's own duration, a gift - and to know this is to find ourselves as well giving of our own fragile beauty. 

For however long we may

appear. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

And So We Come To Kindness

and so we come to kindness - not a forced approach, or a measured thought to offer, but our own simple, open nature of accepting what comes to our awareness, the Buddha smile that says "yes, this too belongs right now." By this light, the world is designed in perfect kindness - nothing judged in it's belonging, all things allowed by virtue of their occurrence. Even our own fight against the kindness of our nature is, in fact, held in this embrace. 

It's how things are. 

It's what we are. 

Kind. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Reality - Local And Far

it's reality, right now, here - from the local area of thoughts and body, to molecules that dance us into form, and then continued on as earth, air, and even stars. Everything is happening at once, creation, entropy, it's all seen as a singular flow within existence. 

It's a miracle. 

And that we can be aware of this, knowing ourselves as a personal note in such an infinite song, and that we are essential in the symphony of it all - is perhaps the most miraculous. We are the entirety, note and song, molecule and body. 

We are reality. 

Happening, always, right now. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

As My Own

it's your sorrow as my own - and in this

there are no lines drawn

between us,

being one

with no borders to be

found

~

Peace,

Eric