First and foremost I am a student.Unequivocally without a doubt an avid learner . The more I am willing to learn the more lessons appear. Thus I find lessons everywhere, Even in the most unlikely places I find gems of wisdom offering me life instructions I need and want to to hear.
Recently when searching for a book to simply entertain me I was deliciously drawn to "Bite Me. A Love Story" by Christopher Moore. He's one of my favourite authors of the wild, profane and ridiculous. In summary brilliant. Here was a book that looked like pure mind candy...light and gregariously funny.
However, within the pages of this vampire tale I have been given a lesson. Earmarked and revisited is page158: "But to become mist (the state of transcendent freedom of movement through the dematerializing of physical form), you simply had to BE. Words got in the way. They separated you from the condition."
I think of how often I become lost in words. My mind always writing, trying to capture the moment, the lessons, the experience in words, I've blogged in my mind a thousand articles since I last sat at my computer. I see pages of my books forming in my mind, I mentally scratch out poems when I stop to linger in the moment of a rose sweetly quietly opening in explicit beauty asking nothing but giving everything, or while gazing at a leaf gently yet powerfully holding diamond like droplets of water on it's green body...glistening expressions of divine abundance as I pass by. How quickly I digress to wrapping myself in the thought of the thing rather than just being with it.
Words... words... words. I love them dearly. Yet I've been experiencing a shift to simply being, not wanting to scribe, record or scribble the moments into form. As the vampire Tommy says "words get in the way." He was a writer, always thinking, always needing to move the moment from what was happening to etchings on paper. I see him as my kindred spirit, a teacher.
In this next phase of awakening I am learning the lesson to "just be" so I may know a greater depth of freedom, a release of having to put it all into words. A liberation of doing what I've always done to experience my world in a new way, detaching from habits. I can have experiences just to have experiences. As such I feel I am keeping my mind uncluttered from the past and the future so I can live more fully now.
Who knew a vampire love story would be my teacher of living a more enlightened moment? With gratitude flowing through me on this sunny morning, where the energy of light streams into my skin moving deep into my cells that course through my blood that beat my heart which gives me life i let go... of words... and just be.
What lesson do you need to know right now? When you are ready for the answer trust me, it will come to you. Actually its already there waiting for you...
For an awesome read, but not for the feint of heart, check out Christopher Moore's many awesome books.
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