communion

Our ideas about life prevent total communion with life. With direct perception of something beautiful the mind stops thinking for just a moment, and in that silence there is reality. There are plenty of ways we try and manufacture this silence: through our phones, relationships, material gain, drugs and drink. They may work for some time, but the remorseful self always returns with its conflict, uncertainty, and sorrow. Who is the self that needs life to be a certain way; to seek escape from what is? Is it possible to live without all of these ideas and concepts, so there is the possibility of something new and fresh each moment? Maybe by understanding our desires, motives, and suffering directly, there is the possibility to go beyond.

-S.L