Moments Beyond Self

When we think back to moments of absolute joy.  When we remember instants of profound knowing.  When we stood outside of time and were able to see and understand clearly, ourselves and others.  During those moments compassion was always as just as deep as it needed to be in order to float any shortcoming (ours or others) on a deeper ever-present sea of truth and gratitude.  That simple place - where the love we give is exactly the love we feel.  I don't even remember being caught up in the notion that I was a human at those moments.  In fact, it is like there was always something missing or absent at those times.  Our own identity (the image of self) or one we identify with was not there in that moment at the center of the stage.

Our sense of self – (the one who we think we are) was not in the way – sometimes it wasn’t even on the stage at all.  A restroom break or a brief holiday or maybe even an accidental and short term death kept our sense of a self from standing at the centre of our stage.  Sometimes, a moment is just so very important to us that we choose to set aside our self-image.  In that flowing moment of freedom we hold an open pass to all of the love and all of the wisdom and all of the knowledge that has ever existed.  There is nothing to block our access to it.  There is also nothing that we need to protect from pain or rejection or abandonment or even the embarrassment we might fear.  It never takes a long time for that moment to pass but it also never takes any time at all to know that the heart of life itself, beats for us with joy and without hesitation during any moments we need it – during any moment we invite it.  During those instants in our life when we find the courage to set aside who we imagine we are, or who we want others to think we are, or (basically) who we identify with – we find that we can just simply ‘be’.  The incredible thing to notice is that fear doesn’t even exist when the miracle of courage and knowing is so easily uncovered in us and so easily becomes a part of our presence.  Life loves life – wholeheartedly - in a new and different way in every moment and the true nature that we feel and share with the universe is filled to the brim with love and compassion.