I participate

The search for a path towards light

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I begin here, breathing in.
Breathing in a change in perspective
where I understand myself more organically
through the inner sensation of my cells and molecules
in such a way that I experience
a more immediate conscious realization
that I am a fragment of a whole world.
Alive and aware.
Participating.
Not orchestrating.
Breathing,
not inhaling.
Thinking through sensation
rather than attempting to sense with thought.
Here and now,
taking in a clear impression of the energy
both within and outside the body.
A harmonic union of being.
I am here with the whole planet,
and the whole planet is in me now
so that we are far less distinct from one another
than my ordinary day-to-day thoughts and actions would imply.
And it is in this place
that I come into alignment with the gravity that binds me here
and of the magnetism that collects me together in being.
All of creation has arrived here in me
together in this moment
and I have arrived in all of creation.
This is the place where I form
an even deeper bond with my sensation
which begins as an organ
and leads me into a molecular relationship with being.
One alive in the details of its energy.
A collective mystery I cannot penetrate,
but can only be present to.
I Am.
A fragment of this very active cosmos
working always and everywhere to remember itself
to reconstruct the awareness of its own being
here in this moment.
Alive in this energy, I participate.
And as always it is most appropriate
here within being
to utter the words
Lord have mercy.