All is what it is, and does what it does. Beyond the abstractions of mind is pure isness; your attention, right now, the objects around you, and this body, are purely what they are behind all of the conceptions.

You are you — isn’t that wonderful? Why not celebrate your very existence?

These seemingly never-ending stories of our worthiness, status, and identity that we hold upright, can be given their rest by being. We don’t have to issue and act out apologias for our existence.

Our drive for self-evaluation causes much repetitive pain, a kind of added layer of it; as after all, pain is, too. It’s as natural as the sunshine. But this added layer takes away from the rawness of experiencing pain as well as pleasure. Are we having the best time while we’re thinking about how we’re having the best time?

We live in different ways, we’re all unique and this essence reflects itself in the fact that we all have something unique to give. When we find it, it is a giving that gives back by nourishing us to the core.

There is no shame in business, activism, sex work, being an influencer, dumpster diving, doing nothing, trying to do everything. No one else is you — you are doing you right now, perfectly. Nor are we a static image of course; the will to change is, just as the will to not change, is.

Ourselves and all that is around us are the ingredients of life, all connected together in a recipe. The parts of this whole enrich and define each of the others by shades of contrast, and these parts enrich the whole recipe.

Without the other side, its opposite will put itself out of business, lose itself as it was, and then take itself and the wider world towards its own extremes, only to find that perhaps it needed the other side after all.

The tension of life’s opposites is a constant, but their violence is a variable. The world’s necessary sufferings are caused by one-sidedness and ego. Human kind is on a journey to find balance, acceptance and wholeness.

What hems us in from accepting these kinds of claims? Perhaps the temptation to want reality to fit what we want it to be. We already know that narrowness of mind constrains the scope and depth of life Experience.

Nature and the universe will go on; we are parts doing our part, we are what we are and do what we do at each turn. And if we expand our viewpoint enough, everything becomes a tradeoff.

In some cases and viewpoints we are the hero, in others, we are the villain; add up all the cases, and what are we? Human beings. Being what we are.

Whilst all things change, the only thing that doesn’t change, is change. Change will always be bittersweet, and we’ll always be drinking from that chalice.

So if we’re going to live life, let’s embrace it soulfully, deeply, movingly, and vividly. When we let life touch us like this, then within everything, we will be able to find grace, beauty, wonder and meaning.

Should we slip out of this way, it is no matter, because we did it perfectly 🙂 No doubt there will also be many days where I’ll forget my own words, but this does not invalidate our ever-efforts to honour life’s greatness.

You are a unique essence in this world; you are essential to its definition just like everything else, so let yourself dance this mysterious night away, your way.