Loving and kind

I'm searching for a deeper place in myself 
than the superficial territory of my thinking,

deeper in myself, 
in communication with the tissues of my being, 
the vibration that fills the cells, 
the presence of finer energies in the molecules, 
the breathing.

An awareness of being 
that arises from the fabric of reality 
and not my imagination. 

I wish to be in touch 
with what is immediately around me today. 
With what takes place here, 
where I can see it and touch it and feel it. 

And I wish for my feelings 
to be about things that are immediate and true, 
not distant and mostly imaginary. 

To let go of the worlds of politics and man's affairs. 

To enter the world 
of immediate relationship with my fellow human beings. 
Immediate relationship with the air that I breathe. 

Immediately, I come into a relationship 
with the actual world around me
as it flows into my being here.

This is always an action of what takes place now, 
right where I am, 
not something constructed by my imagination. 

Of whether what takes place here and now is difficult or easy, 
it has the merit and the benefit of being essentially true. 

So I agree to enter this fabric, 
this tissue of my life here and now 
to participate in what is essentially true 
to allow life to flow into being 
with less resistance, 
with fewer opinions, 
with more honesty. 

To not make things unnecessarily complicated, 
and to remember to be honorable, 
to be just,
and above all
to attempt to be loving and kind