The eternal expression
Collapsing time and space to find the mystical in the now.
What does this moment have to say?
What is it that actually wants to be expressed right now?
Are you still making a distinction between „starting to express“ something and the simple act of being in this moment?
I sometimes catch myself thinking, „Now I will get my notebook and write, and this will be my self-expression.“ But by doing that, I am subconsciously saying that whatever I am doing right now – before I grab the notebook – isn’t a fully acknowledged form of expression.
It’s as if we believe there is a „preliminary“ thing, and then the „actual“ thing finally arrives. Since our experience of life depends entirely on how we define things for ourselves, we often carry a mixed or limited definition of when and how to express who we truly are.
In the past, I found myself living by a definition that went something like this: „Only when I grab my paper and pen, or start drawing, or do ‘the thing,’ am I finally expressing who I am.“
By that definition, everything else – all those moments „in between“ – doesn’t count. You know the feeling?
I am pointing out that we often treat 90% of our lives as a „waiting room“ for the 10% we consider „real“ or „productive“.
But when you look at the actual structure of existence, you find that there is only one ongoing, eternal now moment.
To see this clearly, we have to move through the constructs of time and space.
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If we conceive of everything as being devoid of the element of „extension in space“ – which we usually perceive as „form“ or even our „notebook“ – then that thing must be present in its totality anywhere and everywhere. That is to say, it exists at every point of space simultaneously.
The scientific definition of time is the period occupied by a body passing from one given point in space to another. Therefore, according to this definition, where there is no space, there can be no time.
If there is no space, nothing can be at a distance from us. And since there is no time, nothing can truly exist in „the future“.
Through this, we find that everything – every idea, including ourselves and our very being – necessarily exists in a universal here and everlastingly now.
Consequently, expression can only happen now, and now, and now.
Every single moment is, by definition, worthy of being acknowledged as the only thing that exists in all of creation. Whatever we are doing in this moment is our greatest expression of it.
I found myself sometimes judging mundane moments, like washing the dishes. „That’s not good enough,“ I thought. „How can this possibly be interesting?“
But looking at washing dishes as a „chore“ is just a limited space-time perspective. You can have the greatest insight and moments of pure enlightenment while washing dishes – moments that change you fundamentally.
This is because you have access to all information in every single moment. Yes, on the surface, you were „only washing dishes,“ but as a master, the experience changed you. You allowed the mundane to become mystical by looking through it, peering behind the veil. Suddenly, every moment becomes your greatest expression because you are aware of who is doing it.
So, let’s be bold enough to define every single thing we do as true self-expression – as passion. When you do that, you find yourself expressing your true self all the time. You will become more and more aware of this flow, and consequently, you will create more of it. Every moment becomes worth „sharing“ because we no longer judge life by outside appearances.
I hope you enjoyed.
Now go and don’t look back,
Dennis
