Never So Free

Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer/songwriter, wrote: "Never so free, I'm lost in the seagull's cry," evocative of a moment free and clear.

You and I are free. We have never been so free.

Released by our own courage and wisdom from our former entanglements of dependency and co-dependency, cleansed by our own breath of all that is not what we consciously choose for ourselves in this moment, we are free in ways that have never been explored by us... until now.

There is nothing that we need to accomplish. Nothing that we need to prove. Nothing that we need to protect or defend ourselves from. Nothing to fear. Nothing to embellish. Nothing to attain or acquire. Nothing to strive for, unless we choose to do so for the experience of the striving itself. There is nothing that we need; we always have plenty to sustain and delight us, to inspire and comfort us.

And in this clear and lovely space, we realize the vast depth and stretch and upward reach that we are.

In this expanse, we feel ourselves to be light and love, exquisite, all-permeating, perfect.

In this Now, we know ourselves as God also. We bring forth the divinity that has always been within us.

And it does not require vast stretches of time for this. No. Time is an illusion. Step away from its well-known imperatives through your breath.

In a single moment - what the clock might call a minute - you can bring yourself into this infinite and eternal space, and it is so vast, so quiet, so perfect in all its nothing and everything, that the moment will fill you as if it were days. Just breathe there. Just breathe.

And that moment becomes another moment, later perhaps.

And that later moment becomes a morning lived in love and light. And that morning then stretches itself out to encompass a whole day of timeless Now being and becoming in perfect peace.

And that day becomes a transformation of what it means to be a human being on planet Earth.

It is that simple. And it is time now for this.