A marathon of humility.

Over the past year, I have really slowed down. There isn’t much taking my attention away from my present moment to moment experience of life. In this open space, I am aware of holding a steady stream of both incredible vulnerability and heart-expanding wonder. The lived, felt experience of awakening is a humbling one. It’s a marathon of humility. The vulnerability that has staked a claim in my being is the very feeling which I had clearly been avoiding through the distractions of my former life. So now I am here with it all, not knowing where this is all leading and the only guide worth following seems to be the heart.

It shouldn’t surprise me that what appears in the space that the ego no longer occupies in my being is heart-centered consciousness. This is just a fancy term for the fact that what is appearing, what is pulling my attention, what seems to be the emerging purpose of my measly life is love. Trust me that I’m no saint and I haven’t arrived anywhere special. It’s kind of the opposite. I’m just starting to see what has always been here but I was too distracted to notice. I’m blown away at how simple it all is. It’s an invitation into a neutral, easy, effortless, humble love for all of life. I’ve had only a glimpse of this potential but I’m clear that if this is all there is, I’ll take it. I would willingly hand everything over for this ability to see and live through the eyes of love. It’s early days and I’m just dipping a toe in but so far, the price of letting go of the security of the ego’s pursuits is worth it. It’s heaven on earth.