Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Adoration of All

If you are to truly know the fullest extent of what it means to be awake, you must yearn to adore everything.  It is only then that we begin to see with our true eyes.  The Divine has distaste for nothing, not even the most hideous situations.  Now, our adoration doesn't mean that we are passive, complacent smiling faces, if anything our adoration moves us to serve others, to serve life, to get our hands very dirty. 
The willingness to adore things just as they are is an indispensable quality of the Real.  To adore even what we dislike, even what we may hate, is to see beyond the limitations of our limited two eyes- beyond the limitations of our imperfect perceptions. 
True adoration comes from a place deeper than emotion and thought, from a place that's untainted by our biases and opinions.  This is self-transcendence, this is realizing the emptiness of phenomena, this is seeing perfection amidst imperfection. 
As we deepen in our realization of the All, adoration becomes natural and effortless.  When that adoration penetrates to the depths, we are left deeply grateful for it all.

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