Pure and Simple Presence

Pure and Simple Presence

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Post written by Katarina Miletic  Join my Inner Circle

Comprehensive and Concise Lesson in Presence

Presence doesn’t require words or thoughts, or intellectual concepts to feel alive and quite well – in fact, blissfully aware of itself.

Present-day requires presence in its pure essence. And presence is happy to oblige. With ease, it cuts through unnecessary and unconscious – revealing itself to the wise. To the observant. To the quiet. To the joyful. To the open.

Play with it. It wants you to summon its alert state of being – to touch you from within your own soul. It wants you to understand that you are enough as you are in your here and now, present in the everpresence of all there is (also all there ever was, and all there ever will be).

Learn that you are eternal. It is inside you. It is not beyond your knowing, only beyond the reach of your mind.

Smile at the universe. It is smiling at you always! Just allow, don’t resist. The love is there, inside the presence that is You, and Me, and Us.

Eternity is waking you up - gently and safely. You feel it’s time to go home. You are free from the burden of your delusion, suffering and pain. The prison of your mind is no longer holding you hostage.

Forget the words. Words are not important here. Introduce yourself to yourself. Relax, and just be. Feel the presence of freedom inside the space that you call and recognise as you – but you also feel it’s much bigger than your name alone holds. Let alone that the concept of your mind can comprehend.

Let go of needing to understand, to define, to conceptualise. Instead, get comfortable with pure knowing. For the sake of what we are used to, it would seem that my consciousness is writing and yours is receiving these words. But closer to the truth is that the consciousness (which we are both a part of) is speaking to itself. Allow it to guide your awareness to the presence which inspired these words – for they want to reunite and intensify the light.

* * * * The Exclusive Update – 316 Days to Dream * * * * 

1.

I think it’s safe to say that in all of my 27 years of living in London, this is the first rain that I wanted to experience, and that was a welcome sight not just for my garden, but for my soul as well. I never thought I would feel this overwhelming feeling of relief and nurture, like the sky reached down and touched my head, saying ‘all is well’. The messages of ‘all is well’ are particularly pronounced and clear. I trust them as my intuition has no problem interpreting the messages from source with such clarity and light.

In other stories, as a document of all of my progress, I have spent the day between working on the brand new painting (a glimpse of which you saw in yesterday’s post – click here if you missed it), and working on the website software - lots of technical things before things can get creative, so the two activities balanced each other well.

2.

Joy is the feeling of the day today. Excellent, deep and very meaningful conversations with the family. We just love existential, really deep thoughts and experiences we share, I am so lucky and blessed to have this kind of relationship with my immediate circle. That is a blessing beyond any other I have known (and I have been blessed all my life with phenomenally brilliant souls and meaningful relationships).

3.

Excited about tomorrow, as much as I am excited about each and every day. I have become so accustomed now to the way I naturally plan things – with clearly defined goals, and then leaving much freedom of choice for the little steps and activities each day. As long as all I do is moving me forward, I am not going to put pressure on myself to do it in a certain structured order, just for the sake of ticking some boxes. Whilst I appreciate that some people may need this kind of map, I really don’t. I have tried and tested both methods, to be sure.

Before a collection launch when one has to have many balls up in the air, things do get more intense and lists are necessary to keep on top of it all. But, in the creative space, I prefer freedom in choosing my steps each day.

Having said that, I am itching to do more cataloguing, and some sewing – but perhaps when this painting is complete, I can alternate those before I start the new one. It will get more interesting when I can share pictures with you because at the moment the research part I am doing is looking through various index pages for sources of reclaimed materials and scrolling through my image files in any spare moments I find. Anyway, that’s the 365 Days to Dream, and every part of this year is part of that dream, too.

Thank you so much for joining me here, my friend. I trust you are staying inspired and uplifted, and that some ideas are beginning to pop into your head of how you could change and improve your life. To that effect, I send you energy, light and love.

Trafalgar Square Fountain by Katarina Miletic 

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