🌄 Anita – to close the loop

It is the great irony of the human condition: we work tirelessly for that which no work requires. We treat being present (and so love) as a destination to be reached, a ‘how-to’ to be mastered, forgetting that the question itself is a measure of time, while ✨️presence✨️ is eternal. We are already the canvas; we are already the still point.

As T.S. Eliot suggested, the end of all our exploring is to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Perhaps ‘unconditional love’ is simply the name we give to that arrival. When we stop trying to ‘be’ present and simply recognize that we are presence, the burden of performance vanishes. Language, with all its metrics and conditions, finally falls away. We are no longer managing a relationship or meeting a standard; we are simply home. We have returned to the origin, seeing for the first time that the love we were trying to achieve was actually the ground we were standing on all along.