The poetry of presence
Silence comes from you, and you are within silence.
The right moment is the present moment.
There is no other life
than the one that exists here and now.
Thoughts are always there.
That doesn’t mean you have to constantly engage with them.
watch them -
they appear, dissolve, and arise nonstop
they are called different things.
Sometimes feelings
Sometimes emotions
Sometimes I see how the one I live as
wants to react to everything.
Then I pause and look at it all -
and she no longer wants to react.
And reactions are also thoughts
that want to do something.
And I always have this constant thought
that something must be done,
that you must always be doing something
not just sitting there.
But sitting “for no reason”
may be your natural state.
Your being,
simply what you are.
And so often we are forbidden
to be ourselves.
To be yourself means to be inconvenient.
to unlearn what you were taught your whole life.
To unlearn being who was expected of you,
and to be who you are.
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My search for myself never stopped.
But is just beingness?
Yes, the mind is used to action —
to something always happening.
And preferably something familiar,
something you almost expect.
Even if you don’t want it
or whether you want it no longer matters.
They say when there are no desires left,
that is the real you.
Because as a whole you have no desires.
You already have everything you need.
You are whole.
You are complete.
There is no one and nothing left to seek.
You are searching for yourself.
You are searching for yourself within yourself.
And you will keep searching
until you grow tired of searching,
because the mind is not used
to this endless calmness and blissfulness
that is always available.
It needs to turn something on,
to be with someone,
to do something
what everyone else is doing.
But you, you have a different path.
All those quiet days
when you had nothing to do
were given to you
so you could tend to yourself.
Just be.
And be.
And keep being
while you exist.
You always exist.
Allow yourself to simply live.
And yes
to live through every moment,
to savor it.
