Magic

I am surprised how much magic there is in everything.     There is explosive magic in the common and ordinary.    It is there, waiting to be experienced.  Sense perception is wonderful and tells me many things about my world.  It is the beginning of awareness of the magical.    Here is so much more to know, feel and be aware of.   My experience has begun to take me deeper into an appreciation and awareness of what is real and full of wonder.

For me, the irony is that so much of this truly magical  and real world was hidden from me for many years by my own pious hands.    I was one of the million of “believers” who, rather than trust my own senses and awareness, chose instead to live in an imaginary world.

Now, that seems like trying to live in my imagination was such a huge effort.   Like many others, I laboriously surrounded myself with a world of imagined divinity while the real expression of wonder was ready to play out effortlessly all around me.

Fortunately  for me, my pious hands have parted,  the wall is crumbling and there now is abundant light.   The scenery of my imagined world is being put into long-term storage, and the real world of my direct experience is taking center stage.    My flat, two-dimensional world populated with imagined caricatures has dissolved to reveal an exuberant magical reality.

I’d like to say that I have chosen a path of direct experience.   But it is hardly a choice at all.   I have simply learned the value of relaxing.   I have chosen to open myself, my mind and my body so that I can directly experience the magic of reality throughout the day.    I practice acceptance of the possibly scary nature of what I may see.    I let down my guard.

The rest simply happens naturally, once I relax and allow my hands to move from my eyes. It is no effort at all, and for me that is the secret:   stop making such an effort.    I allow the magic of the world to unfold before me, allow it to express itself, allow the experience to happen.

For the magic to happen, for reality to manifest, for me to experience the real world, I simply allow it to happen.