Being Available
A companion piece to On the Threshold of the Whole
1 Introduction
In my recent essay, On the Threshold of the Whole, I explored the meeting place between being and non-being—the living aperture through which the universe becomes aware of itself. But vision alone does not complete the circle. The threshold is not a distant horizon; it is lived in the body, in the pulse of love and loss, in the raw immediacy of our entanglement with form.
This next reflection turns toward that lived edge. It asks what it means to embody the infinite while bound by limitation, to recognise ourselves as both space and content—emptiness and fullness—without fixing in either. Here, awakening reveals its cost and its grace: we are asked to stay open even when attachment aches, to be available to the vortex of potential even as it shapes itself through flesh and feeling.
If the first essay spoke of the Whole awakening to itself, this one listens for how that awakening moves through the human heart—the divine container we also are.
In my recent essay, On the Threshold of the Whole, I explored the meeting place between being and non-being—the living aperture through which the universe becomes aware of itself. But vision alone does not complete the circle. The threshold is not a distant horizon; it is lived in the body, in the pulse of love and loss, in the raw immediacy of our entanglement with form.
This next reflection turns toward that lived edge. It asks what it means to embody the infinite while bound by limitation, to recognise ourselves as both space and content—emptiness and fullness—without fixing in either. Here, awakening reveals its cost and its grace: we are asked to stay open even when attachment aches, to be available to the vortex of potential even as it shapes itself through flesh and feeling.
If the first essay spoke of the Whole awakening to itself, this one listens for how that awakening moves through the human heart—the divine container we also are.
Embodiment at the Threshold
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