Attraction to Presence

It is truly stunning to encounter someone existing in a state of embodied presence. To have that presence meet your gaze: wide awake to you, and the world around you. To feel them seeing you and sensing you deeply. Such a moment can be extremely lucid and full of life. It is as though you have stumbled across the path of a wild animal. One that is engaging you with all of their awareness. Looking right into the center of your soul.

How rare and exciting in this age of self-absorbed distraction! How beautiful to experience someone in this way. How easy it is to fall in love with such an electric connection. There is nothing more attractive in the entire world.

Of course, to even recognize such a presence, you yourself must also be engaging with the living moment at this essential level. Moving, breathing and existing through every molecule of your being, as much as possible. Feeling all that is alive within you, and all that is alive around you. This practice moves itself naturally towards a vibrant inner quiet: the ability to listen and feel with exuberance. Allowing you to hear beyond the surface level of things, as your mind cuts through the frothing world of frenetic delusion. Awake and ready for anything.

It may require a great deal of discipline and practice to initially retrain the mind to achieve this state of awareness. But the reward is great. And that which was once invisible will become visible. Including those unique individuals who are also choosing to exist in this way: popping out of the crowd like flowers in bloom, radiant and luminous. Somehow more real than anything else around them. Embrace this auspicious moment when it happens. With every bit of the awe that being alive truly deserves. Let it wash over you. Let it carry you as deep into the eyes of this mystery before you…. as deep as your soul is willing and wanting to go.