When I operate from a state of intense nervous tension or anxiety, then I appear to be running towards the future. There is no possibility that I will ever have an opportunity to find that future because the future will continue to recede as I continue to find other comparables to reverberate towards. When I operate out of a sense of self, or put differently, out of a state of vision, I simply manifest in the present the vision I have. I don’t look to a future; I look to a present and act within the present—do within the present—as if it is the present. The doing and the being are one in the same and I can’t ultimately escape not doing at some level as long as I am of this world. Transcendence reflects not separation from…but immersion in…a state of being in which we are serene and resonant regardless of the cacophony of free radicals around us.
Original writing date: June 16, 2008