I perceive beauty — the beauty of a life in which everything appears that I am able to receive and truly experience. Yet I feel less and less that this life is something I can own or possess. It is more like a river in motion — flowing freely, without claiming the riverbed through which it moves.
This creates a curious relationship with the world. On the surface, it can seem distancing — drawing me away from what is familiar, from outer events and the reactions surrounding them — because I no longer identify with them in the same way.
When I try to claim life as my life, a sense of separation arises, and I no longer feel true community with others. Silence gives more — the silence of life itself, from which every sound is born.
At the same time, there is an ongoing longing for a different kind of connection, one that has begun to unfold. The unstoppable transformation of my being is leading toward a new quality of living — where meetings and mutual recognitions arise within this changed inner space.
At its root, this may seem like the same old longing — the desire to be close to those of similar heart and orientation. After all, we most wish to share and receive what carries our interest and the fire of our passion.
And yet it is not the same — it is more, and more complex than that. It feels as if it has expanded into existence itself.
These encounters and sharings move beyond the desire for exchange or reciprocity. What emerges is a shared field of being — free from judgment, not denying what is there to learn, deeply honest — where we recognize ourselves in one another, and one another in everyone — dissolving into a love that extends toward all that is.
This is the beauty of life as I now perceive it.
From my heart, I wish that you may see and feel the beauty of life in your own way — today, in the new year, and always.
With love,
your traveling companion
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