Being Available
“A true sense of belonging should allow us to become free and creative, and inhabit the silent depth within us.”
—John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes
Meditation remains a key element of my daily life—no longer a strategic part of the desperate search for inner resolution (that has fallen away), but as a natural expression of the deep stillness that radiates from the centre of my being.
I recently heard it described as
“the daily brushing of one’s spiritual teeth.”
That made me smile.
I’ve discovered over time that meditation is not just about experiencing peace, bliss, and insight—wonderful though they are, they come and go. It is about signing a daily contract with life. It is me saying:
“Here I am. I’m available.”
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Awakening brings with it a new perspective. In the vast expansive context that is recognised as the living background and foreground of experience, my personal concerns—though still present—are seen with fresh eyes.
There is choice where there used to be compulsion. There is time and space to be responsive rather than reactive. And if impulse takes over from reflection, there is always a reset button: just let everything be as it is.
Life is responsive. The field of being we swim in has a deep creative intelligence. If you open yourself to it—and offer yourself ready to respond—it will take hold of you and transform your expression in the world.
This is not a passive surrender… it is showing up wholeheartedly, bringing every fibre of your being to the moment—not as a mindless ventriloquist dummy but as radiant presence, leaving behind the neurotic self-concern that has tormented your existence since before knowing when.
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When you make yourself porous to the infinite-eternal, you begin a life of no-limitation—acting as you within the limitations and constraints of being embodied with a personality. A creative dance that unfolds within the flow of creation itself.
“Life is responsive. ….. if you open yourself to it…..it will take hold of you and transform your expression in the world.”
Personal agendas don’t necessarily disappear—we live in a world that doesn’t recognise this new perspective—but something precious always has priority. You discover a hierarchy of meaning. Everything is seen in a larger context, which shines a light on what is truly important.
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And there is an obligation. A response of gratitude for the wonderful gift of grace that, like the Pentecostal spirit, starts to move through you and as you.
That obligation is to no longer hide in the shadows, keeping one’s realisations safely for oneself—but to sing out, stand up front and centre, and join the chorus of others who have also realised their essential nature and want to share it with a world that is hollow and shallow and desperately needs the light of awakening.
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This, then, is the available life:
To be porous to truth.
To be present without hiding.
To live from stillness, and act from love.
