“The purpose of being born is fulfilled in the state between ‘I am’ and ‘That.’” – Lalla
One of the things I’ve thoroughly come to enjoy about living on a golf course is the meandering path I get to walk a few times a day through the rolling greens. There is a stillness, especially in the early morning hours before the golfers have arrived, through which the birds fly and the breeze blows that truly helps put me in harmony with the world around me and my place in it. It is a truly therapeutic necessity for dealing with this deficit in attention I’ve often been known to have.
After my morning walk today, I looked at my Facebook wall with great thanksgiving for the friends and associates that I have gathered through the long meandering path that is my life. As I looked through the updates that they offered and the links and videos they shared, I realized how much control I had over what I might become in each moment by the attention I gave to each update. Everything I “like” and everything I comment upon becomes a part of me, and I a part of it. Wherever I place my attention in the virtual world expands my activity within it, and for that brief convergence of time, space, attention, and activity, I am That.
And so it is in the non-virtual world. In this multi-dimensional social network that we refer to as life in the real world, in every convergence of time, space, attention, and activity, we are always becoming, always being, always That, and it always happens Now. Take some time today to find your way into that convergence. Perform whichever practice you find helps you into that moment of presence where every moment is your moment of rebirth, and the world you are born into brings a new realm of discovery, delight, gratitude, and opportunity in every glorious instant.
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Steve McAllister
Steve McAllister is an actor, musician, accomplished author, filmmaker, and the man behind Your Daily Groove at Modern Hippie Mag. His most recent novel, The McAllister Code is available now as a Limited Edition Advanced Copy paperback. Find Steve on Twitter, @InkenSoul. Read his reviews and articles here.
