3 Decembers is not a long time. I wish I would've gotten the chance to meet your bestie cause she sounds amazing! You're keeping her memory alive!! I bet she'd be proud of you! And isn't Lady Bird a fantastic movie??!!
This day, this hour, this moment... it's all we are guaranteed... why not wear the best perfume, use the silver, and definitely buy the shoes!!!
But above all... spread love!!! You sure do a great job of it!!🩷
A friend said, "Be where your feet are," as a casual comment but it changed my life. I lived most of my life, looking for the next thing. Most times, I didn't even realize my attention was distracted. Once I understood that I needed to be with the person in front of me, life got a lot better. I didn't have to act engaged, anymore. Like most critical lessons, I sure wish I had learned this one a few decades ago.
Blessings to you, BT. These important insights mark the road from the existentialist mode, transforming into the essentialist; the world and what-has-been fights against us recognising this fact, and desperately tries to knock us off this path that will save us in these dark times.
How modernity presences to us now: the present is an everydayness—everything is pre-disclosed in advance, predicted and mastered. So too is this for the future: an 'awaiting' is there, we merely persist in the mode of awaiting the technical goal.
This mode of being is well articulated by you. It's tied up with our concern, our care, and what we value. The world presences as an inessential and surface spirit of the times, as we are provoked from one pointless curiosity to another, never looking to the essence of things.
Yet even if the state of interest is roused by a memorable happening that draws attention on a given particular day, say due to danger or enjoyment, it is still everydayness; It presences you more, but it is still a known category, there is no mystery and wonder.
The realisation 'the now, the action one does each day, is what matters' brings one to a better living, and is an excellent preparation—a preparation for essential future and present—but alone it does not make us ultimately essential.
What we are after is the essential transformation of the present, and the future. We want a 'living in true wonder now' without abandoning true future (Hope, illumination).
We can have what you describe, and something more—a transformation of what-is-awaited, to what-will-be, or more: to HE WHO WILL BE. Not only do we want access to the eternal present in the temporal now, we want to clear the false future to reveal HE WHO IS-HE WHO WILL BE.
I AM, EHIYEH in Hebrew, means I WAS-I AM-I WILL BE—It carries the future and past tense also, not just the present.
The Lord is this future. In this situation, through the slow transformation of concentration practice in prayer, over a long consistent period leading to authentic con-temp-lation (a be-holding God), does one begin to interact with the essential.
Then slowly, a new comprehensive sight (from the night and day path) dawns, in which the analysis of the multiplicity of inner spiritual experience and outer synchronicities (coincidental miracles in objective happenings) over a long period of time allows us to recognise the One Lord in the multiplicity of phenomena (separated from chance happenings by a careful epistemic principle and discernment), and communicate with Him and recognise Him as a fact of inner and outer experience.
This is to Live Now In Wonder Manifesting His Future. And incredible it is. 'greater things than this shall ye see'.
Not only do we recognise the importance of the ordinary moment, but we see the true significance and essence of it (what truly moves it towards its authentic future). Upon noticing that (Him) as a fact we can participate in manifesting His future through his impulses. That is true spirit.
In that way we live in 'the hallway' AND the 'many rooms' that the Father has.
This future is the divine call where the now must go, and it is this spirit that lives and moves the things of the ordinary moment at their essence through the miraculous. It is the subtle below the gross. Truly, we can live in wonder with a growing illumination and hope of what that future will essentially be (which is already now, as His potentiality), all with the mystery intact because we are mortal.
3 Decembers is not a long time. I wish I would've gotten the chance to meet your bestie cause she sounds amazing! You're keeping her memory alive!! I bet she'd be proud of you! And isn't Lady Bird a fantastic movie??!!
This day, this hour, this moment... it's all we are guaranteed... why not wear the best perfume, use the silver, and definitely buy the shoes!!!
But above all... spread love!!! You sure do a great job of it!!🩷
This was a beautiful post and something I strangely really needed to hear. Love your page, keep writing! xx
Thank you for reading!
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This is a beautiful read and profound meditation that has met me well in my own reflection on life as it is in the present. Excellent work.
Thank you!
I feel so seen by this it aches!! I bet your friend is proud ❤️
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A friend said, "Be where your feet are," as a casual comment but it changed my life. I lived most of my life, looking for the next thing. Most times, I didn't even realize my attention was distracted. Once I understood that I needed to be with the person in front of me, life got a lot better. I didn't have to act engaged, anymore. Like most critical lessons, I sure wish I had learned this one a few decades ago.
Thank you for this piece
I wonder, how does one stay present in all moments. Fully embracing every moment, is it a matter of just doing it til it becomes second nature?
every day, indeed, is all there is. and why not show up to God as our best selves? Gorgeous writing!
Blessings to you, BT. These important insights mark the road from the existentialist mode, transforming into the essentialist; the world and what-has-been fights against us recognising this fact, and desperately tries to knock us off this path that will save us in these dark times.
How modernity presences to us now: the present is an everydayness—everything is pre-disclosed in advance, predicted and mastered. So too is this for the future: an 'awaiting' is there, we merely persist in the mode of awaiting the technical goal.
This mode of being is well articulated by you. It's tied up with our concern, our care, and what we value. The world presences as an inessential and surface spirit of the times, as we are provoked from one pointless curiosity to another, never looking to the essence of things.
Yet even if the state of interest is roused by a memorable happening that draws attention on a given particular day, say due to danger or enjoyment, it is still everydayness; It presences you more, but it is still a known category, there is no mystery and wonder.
The realisation 'the now, the action one does each day, is what matters' brings one to a better living, and is an excellent preparation—a preparation for essential future and present—but alone it does not make us ultimately essential.
What we are after is the essential transformation of the present, and the future. We want a 'living in true wonder now' without abandoning true future (Hope, illumination).
We can have what you describe, and something more—a transformation of what-is-awaited, to what-will-be, or more: to HE WHO WILL BE. Not only do we want access to the eternal present in the temporal now, we want to clear the false future to reveal HE WHO IS-HE WHO WILL BE.
I AM, EHIYEH in Hebrew, means I WAS-I AM-I WILL BE—It carries the future and past tense also, not just the present.
The Lord is this future. In this situation, through the slow transformation of concentration practice in prayer, over a long consistent period leading to authentic con-temp-lation (a be-holding God), does one begin to interact with the essential.
Then slowly, a new comprehensive sight (from the night and day path) dawns, in which the analysis of the multiplicity of inner spiritual experience and outer synchronicities (coincidental miracles in objective happenings) over a long period of time allows us to recognise the One Lord in the multiplicity of phenomena (separated from chance happenings by a careful epistemic principle and discernment), and communicate with Him and recognise Him as a fact of inner and outer experience.
This is to Live Now In Wonder Manifesting His Future. And incredible it is. 'greater things than this shall ye see'.
Not only do we recognise the importance of the ordinary moment, but we see the true significance and essence of it (what truly moves it towards its authentic future). Upon noticing that (Him) as a fact we can participate in manifesting His future through his impulses. That is true spirit.
In that way we live in 'the hallway' AND the 'many rooms' that the Father has.
This future is the divine call where the now must go, and it is this spirit that lives and moves the things of the ordinary moment at their essence through the miraculous. It is the subtle below the gross. Truly, we can live in wonder with a growing illumination and hope of what that future will essentially be (which is already now, as His potentiality), all with the mystery intact because we are mortal.
Gorgeous post 🥹🫰
Wonderful essay and perspective