Transcendent Moments.
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cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
At its deepest and most real level, the notion of love at first sight is spoken of in every spiritual tradition as the reward for being fully awake. Such seeing anew restores our sense of being alive Paradoxically, firs sight is recurring. In the same way that we wake every day, we regularly return to first sight in th e rhythm of our wakefullness of spirit. Whenever we can see with that original vision-with nothing between us and the life around is-we can'thelp but love what we see. to See so fundamentally opens us to love. to love so fundamentally is to see the world we're a part of as the vibrant, ongoing creation that it is. So, it really manifests this way: at first sight we find love; at our first true seeing, the love that is already there touches us.
I am lucky enough to have experienced this on many levels at many different times.
The most recent, and powerful moment was on visiting the overlook where Mir and I had the ceremony for our wedding. We'd been there before. An overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway - Glassmine Falls ovelook, at Mile Marker 361. We walked up there, stood there for a few seconds just looking and listening with that 'firstsight' as the journal puts it, and after a moment or two I was flooded with such emotion and the beauty of the place that I couldn't keep the tears from my eyes. The soul of the place spoke to my soul, and it was love.
It was a love that brought to mind and heart a whole collection of instances of love, like a chain of it stretching between us, the bright connection that exists and has existed for a long, long time. It is hard to put such a deeply spiritual moment of connection into words. It transcends just about everything, from actual 'first sight' moments that were never acted upon until much later, to all of the things that we've shared through the years of our relationship... good and challenge both. It was a moment that was just a perfect moment between us and embodied past, present and future... a future which is now some several months in our past as well as that which is still unfolding before us.
Where two deliberate, the love is slight.
Whoever loved, not having loved at first sight.
-Christopher Marlowe
At its deepest and most real level, the notion of love at first sight is spoken of in every spiritual tradition as the reward for being fully awake. Such seeing anew restores our sense of being alive Paradoxically, firs sight is recurring. In the same way that we wake every day, we regularly return to first sight in th e rhythm of our wakefullness of spirit. Whenever we can see with that original vision-with nothing between us and the life around is-we can'thelp but love what we see. to See so fundamentally opens us to love. to love so fundamentally is to see the world we're a part of as the vibrant, ongoing creation that it is. So, it really manifests this way: at first sight we find love; at our first true seeing, the love that is already there touches us.
I am lucky enough to have experienced this on many levels at many different times.
The most recent, and powerful moment was on visiting the overlook where Mir and I had the ceremony for our wedding. We'd been there before. An overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway - Glassmine Falls ovelook, at Mile Marker 361. We walked up there, stood there for a few seconds just looking and listening with that 'firstsight' as the journal puts it, and after a moment or two I was flooded with such emotion and the beauty of the place that I couldn't keep the tears from my eyes. The soul of the place spoke to my soul, and it was love.
It was a love that brought to mind and heart a whole collection of instances of love, like a chain of it stretching between us, the bright connection that exists and has existed for a long, long time. It is hard to put such a deeply spiritual moment of connection into words. It transcends just about everything, from actual 'first sight' moments that were never acted upon until much later, to all of the things that we've shared through the years of our relationship... good and challenge both. It was a moment that was just a perfect moment between us and embodied past, present and future... a future which is now some several months in our past as well as that which is still unfolding before us.
