I was thinking about life this morning while waiting for a doctor’s appointment. Actually, I wasn’t thinking about it, I was experiencing it. Life as it truly is, endless, boundless, source of all beauty and all form. If I can find the right words, I’ll share my experience with you.

Eckhart Tolle, author of  ground-breaking book, The Power of Now, www.eckharttolle.com, likes to talk about the tremendous benefits that accrue when we stop thinking so much. He’s absolutely right. We discover peace. We discover wisdom. We discover who we truly are.  We discover Heaven in the here and now.

In any case, I had this wonderful experience of deliberately putting thoughts to one side for a little while, something I enjoy doing more and more in my life. I could have thought about something if I had wanted to, but I didn’t want to.

I was still conscious. I was quite alert enough to hear when the receptionist called my name. But for a precious interlude, maybe 20 or 30 minutes, sitting in the large medical clinic with a lot of sick people all around me — I surrendered to bliss. It wasn’t a bliss I had to manufacture somehow. It was a bliss that already existed.

My body and mind and heart were set free to simply commune for a little while with being. My own timeless being. With God, dare I say. With the beauty and glory of life as it truly is.

I can’t think of any greater joy in this world than being consciously aware of the balm of our own being.

Perhaps the frenetic drive we see in the world to experience more and more excitement, more and more sex, more and more pleasure, more and more of something or other, simply reflects the emptiness that is in us. The awful anger, violence, and division are driven by the fact that we do not know ourselves as we truly are.

When we give ourselves the opportunity to be still, there is space for beautiful, creative thoughts to arise, and there is also space to become aware of  useless, repetitive, or negative thoughts when they arise, so that they no longer shape our existence. 

Who said we have to roll over and accept the status quo which the egoic mind of this world and our own egoic mind continually try to force upon us?

Freedom is knocking at your door and my door every moment in these tumultuous days. We have the priceless opportunity while we yet live to discover for ourselves the true nature of life — our own true nature.

We have the opportunity to discover who we truly are beyond name or form. Not the caricature we may have created in our own minds – not the caricature others may have created about us — but an eternal, loving presence beyond words to describe.

We will never understand life intellectually. But we can experience it. We can know it. And when we do experience it, miracles happen.

A little time in Heaven — waiting in a medical clinic is a post from: The Happy Seeker - Living with grace at any age