The natural action of Being

In the photo, Flaubert still walks the winter path… but spring is near! Sing joy.

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Here I am, once again, 
at the beginning of my entire life, where I am born. 

And everything is made new and remains always new. 

And here in this place, 
at the root where the plant begins to grow, 
is a great joy. 

A joy that sometimes is so still and quiet
it can barely be sensed. 

Yet somehow, that joy is all and everything. 

And even the slightest contact with it 
reminds me that all in life is joy within being
if I can but find the root and be in contact with it. 

There are places in the soul 
that remain unknown to the self, the way it is, 
but that can be discovered 
and awakened in newness 
if I enter deep enough into a relationship with my sensation. 

Every molecule in my being is designed 
to speak to such places 
to become intimate with them 
so that the connection between the soul and life 
becomes alive itself.

And there is always a remembrance of truth and goodness, 
a trickle of fresh, clear, cool water 
that flows into the root of being from the soul itself. 

This water is pure and clean, 
and contains joy and goodness within itself naturally 
as substances that do not need my interference.
They are already there in all their glory 
and I need only become open enough 
to receive the benefits of their sweet, sweet substance. 

Joy and goodness help me to go more quietly through life, 
to receive life as it arrives and by themselves 
without any interference from me. 

They give birth to the qualities of patience, 
of compassion, 
the basic qualities that are needed in order for love 
to grow through the rest of being 
and spread its leaves outwards into life. 

And so the soul grows much like a plant 
to receive the emanations of the sun itself 
and make good with them. 

It can do this alone without me forcing it, 
without me adding anything. 
And it accomplishes this simply 
through the natural action of being.