Why allow any lie to enter this moment, any weakness, any fear?  In this moment resides all Life, all Truth, Perfect Strength, and Perfect seamless Love.  These qualities can not be found anywhere else.  This moment is complete, it is all life, all real experience, all time.

Two weeks ago I made a vow to open and close each day with the thought of Peace.  That decision led to intense transformation and ultimately a new understanding.  It has led me through several trials, to one major blessing, to the willingness to forgive myself and being willing to do the same for everyone else.  It led me toward letting everyone go and to see who is really lucidly here and willing to share this moment with openness, with freedom, and with love.  It has led me to embrace the practice of being present.  It has given me the will to see through illusions, to realize that this is the only practice worthy of me. 

There is that old saying, that if you love something let it go.  It makes sense, not because that something or someone will come back if they love you too.  Rather, it is a lesson in truth, because only love remains.  No matter who we love, we drink of the same well of love.  There may be different forms, i.e., different limits to our sharing of love.  But these forms are not love.  Love moves presently and can extend as far as we let it.  Ultimately, as we let go of all of our fear, we realize, again and again, that love is all that remains.

This letting go is the act of forgiveness.  All forgiveness is, ultimately, self-forgiveness.  As I forgive myself I have no longer any interest in withholding my forgiveness from anyone else.  Forgiveness is the Philosopher’s Stone, the act that reveals the perfect beauty that is here presently regardless of the illusions of the senses and imaginings of the past.

Jesus said something like, “Heaven is here now.” If Heaven means perfect love, eternally real, perfectly natural, and wholly complete, then that is certainly true; now and only now.

In this moment only Love remains.

Vow #2 – I am determined to remain with the realization that this moment is all reality and all life, to continually let go of the past (because to hold onto nothing is insane) and to strive to remain present and open always.

This present moment is the greatest present and the only present given us.  Now is the time to open it!

That last vow knocked my socks off.  This one is sure to leave me naked and on fire.