What if Presence wasn’t just a vibe, but divine tech we forgot how to use? Jesus and Rumi ran the same spiritual OS. Hustle culture replaced it with burnout. Time to reinstall the original code.
Boy, do i know when my energy leaks - but i can’t notice without letting go of the judgement. Yet.
I need to listen twice most of the time because i hate wearing my hearing aids so that’s encouraging.
I had a magic moment today just sitting in my car absorbing the beauty of the precious individual raindrops on the windshield. Took me back to the days when i had to do acid to notice beauty like that.
I read this years ago in a magazine article - whenever you talk to someone, one on one, give them a compliment. A sincere one. It is incredibly easy to find one thing without lying about it - “that lipstick looks good on you” “nice shirt” “hope you’re having a good day” “i love your smile”. “Thank you for being here” and look them in the eye when you say it. One of the biggest blessings of my life & i have never had a negative response. And I’m isolated a lot so I converse with everyone I interact with.
And it took me getting really sick & disabled long term - with progress but no return to health promise in sight to STOP. I wallowed in the wreckage of my thoughts & finally managed to breathe anyway. Now I lie down, melt into it & am amazed at how that presence is saving my life. Can’t tell you specifically how or on what level but feeling the difference is enuf.
Thanx for pointing out what that doorway is that I’ve been ignoring.
Beth Ann, this is beautiful. The raindrops, the acid flashback, the presence that doesn’t explain but transforms—you captured it. Noticing is the doorway, and you walked through with your eyes open. Grateful you shared this.
Your writing is more than amazing — you’re channeling Jesus’ transmission of Presence. It feels as though Presence touched my third eye & flooded me in a gentle tsunami. Thank you, Good Teacher, it’s by your example that you are teaching others to “share Presence like bread.” 🌅
Karen, thank you. That line, “share Presence like bread,” landed in the silence after prayer one morning and just stayed. If it touched something deep in you, then maybe it was meant for both of us. Not mine. Just passing it on warm. May the next piece land right where it’s needed.
Thank you dear vmb. Today some dust has slowed the cooling fan, and my hardware rebooted an old operating system called not-enough. It’s slow and runs a program that just won’t stop spinning, but slowly and with a grating sound.
I rebooted and reminded, remembered this wakeful presence, hidden in the code. Your words are tattoos on presence and they shake in my inner ear, they rasp at the doors of my heart.
Think I will enjoy the sound of rain against the roof and let presence remove the "does not play well with others" sticker I woke up with today, come off.
Uni-Verse makes me grin often – every day. Sometimes I’m a grinning fool all day long. As Robert Frost wrote: “O, paladins, the lesson for today”… is: Noticing.
This is how She does it. Multiple times a day she sends people who’re noticing the shivery-shimmeryness of this Life Thing, and talking/writing/telling about it.
Okay! I grin theatrically after a few of these moments… Okay, I get it.
After a few of these today the energy was so strong I had to put my head down and take a nap, and I’m not much of a napper.
“At first it takes almost being hit by a truck to wake us up, but after a while, all it takes is the wind blowing the curtain.”
Presence. It’s those blessed beautiful moments when you remember that you can stop trying to get into the room you’re already in! And helping others to know and embrace this truth is sharing the Good News. 🙏♥️In my humble opinion. ☺️
Boy, do i know when my energy leaks - but i can’t notice without letting go of the judgement. Yet.
I need to listen twice most of the time because i hate wearing my hearing aids so that’s encouraging.
I had a magic moment today just sitting in my car absorbing the beauty of the precious individual raindrops on the windshield. Took me back to the days when i had to do acid to notice beauty like that.
I read this years ago in a magazine article - whenever you talk to someone, one on one, give them a compliment. A sincere one. It is incredibly easy to find one thing without lying about it - “that lipstick looks good on you” “nice shirt” “hope you’re having a good day” “i love your smile”. “Thank you for being here” and look them in the eye when you say it. One of the biggest blessings of my life & i have never had a negative response. And I’m isolated a lot so I converse with everyone I interact with.
And it took me getting really sick & disabled long term - with progress but no return to health promise in sight to STOP. I wallowed in the wreckage of my thoughts & finally managed to breathe anyway. Now I lie down, melt into it & am amazed at how that presence is saving my life. Can’t tell you specifically how or on what level but feeling the difference is enuf.
Thanx for pointing out what that doorway is that I’ve been ignoring.
Beth Ann, this is beautiful. The raindrops, the acid flashback, the presence that doesn’t explain but transforms—you captured it. Noticing is the doorway, and you walked through with your eyes open. Grateful you shared this.
Your writing is more than amazing — you’re channeling Jesus’ transmission of Presence. It feels as though Presence touched my third eye & flooded me in a gentle tsunami. Thank you, Good Teacher, it’s by your example that you are teaching others to “share Presence like bread.” 🌅
Karen, thank you. That line, “share Presence like bread,” landed in the silence after prayer one morning and just stayed. If it touched something deep in you, then maybe it was meant for both of us. Not mine. Just passing it on warm. May the next piece land right where it’s needed.
Namaste 🙏
Beautiful! And such a great reminder to slow down and notice.
Noticing how speaking and writing from presence creates transmission, which I received reading this.
Yes, the true mirror...
Thank you dear vmb. Today some dust has slowed the cooling fan, and my hardware rebooted an old operating system called not-enough. It’s slow and runs a program that just won’t stop spinning, but slowly and with a grating sound.
I rebooted and reminded, remembered this wakeful presence, hidden in the code. Your words are tattoos on presence and they shake in my inner ear, they rasp at the doors of my heart.
Thank you dear one. Thank you
Namaste
Love
❤️❤️
So beautiful and enlightening. 🙏 Thank you!
Thanks for the reminder, Alek
Think I will enjoy the sound of rain against the roof and let presence remove the "does not play well with others" sticker I woke up with today, come off.
So it was you! I found that sticker & put it on after you let presence take it off. Thanx for the guidance & knowledge xo
Very inventive, and also deep and meaningful. Thanks! You launched a bunch of my subroutines.
Uni-Verse makes me grin often – every day. Sometimes I’m a grinning fool all day long. As Robert Frost wrote: “O, paladins, the lesson for today”… is: Noticing.
This is how She does it. Multiple times a day she sends people who’re noticing the shivery-shimmeryness of this Life Thing, and talking/writing/telling about it.
Okay! I grin theatrically after a few of these moments… Okay, I get it.
After a few of these today the energy was so strong I had to put my head down and take a nap, and I’m not much of a napper.
“At first it takes almost being hit by a truck to wake us up, but after a while, all it takes is the wind blowing the curtain.”
• Trungpa Rinpoche
Thank you, O, Monk. 🙏😉
Beautiful points about noticing Presence, VBM.
Your writing is..Fresh. Inspired. Edgy. I love it. Thank you!!!
Presence. It’s those blessed beautiful moments when you remember that you can stop trying to get into the room you’re already in! And helping others to know and embrace this truth is sharing the Good News. 🙏♥️In my humble opinion. ☺️