meet through the heart

When you meet life, do you listen? Do you hear the trees swaying, the sound of the birds, the rippling thunder on a stormy day? There is a truth to it, a “suchness” that cannot be described with words. When you meet another, do you listen? Do you perceive the depth of their eyes, the message behind their words, the totality of their being? What relationship do you have to listening? Are you seeking to understand or are you seeking to be understood? All of your prejudices, conclusions, beliefs and experiences have their place the temporal but they have no place in relation to the eternal present. Will you come along, for fun, leaving all your belongings and attachments at the shore? To let the current of life carry us into a different way of living altogether? One where compassion and love express themselves through each and every action, devoid of self image and ambition. Will you live through the heart, seeing one another as a reflection of yourself? Meet me through the heart. See me through the heart.

-S.L