Eye to eye

Eye to eye
How are you
Where, when
Open or closed
As reality knocks
May crack frames
That are narrow
To let go free
Soul to soul
Reach out
Embrace
Be embraced
Light and sound
Love all around
Bring silence
With noise
Into life
And death
Transports all
And one across
Gates and bridges
Worlds and planes
Home’s a golden heart
Ocean of love and mercy
God is realizing itself
Every moment now
See each other
Just as soul
Eye to eye

“Welcome to the moment” — remembering the future

Entrusting yourself to divine guidance

The promise of the mysticism of all traditions, namely that heaven will take care of us, is a great challenge for us. At first we experience it differently: that we are dependent on external circumstances… [But] mysticism is alive (mysticism from the Greek myein, to close one’s lips and eyes, meaning: “what do I hear when I am silent; what do I see when I close my eyes?”). The surface of life is dominated by the will to survive and assert ourselves, which demands our performance and our full attention. But the surface is only thin; not so far underneath lives another experience, hidden but just as real; quieter and more delicate, but just as strong and sustaining.

The question that mysticism asks us is: “To whom do you give priority? Do you allow your life to be guided by the laws of the surface or by the mystery of the Tao, which provides and cares for us?” If we make the surface our guiding star, we must abandon all hope, because this is where performance and struggle apply. But if we place the secret at the center of our lives, it is the proofs and being right that we must abandon. Because trust, devotion and love apply here, and these are not based on the power of evidence, but on the power of meaning and affirmation.

— Kontexte des Segens, I Ching – The Book of Changes, 坤 KUN, Thomas Primas

Eye to eye with the divine