Yes

Some days it is more difficult to step into “Yes.” Some days it is challenging to meet the world just as it is and give my full attention to it, to step into it without resistance or constraint. On other days it seems so natural, so easy, so full of my inner energy, so fluid to yield to whatever presents. And on some other days, that natural ease seems so remote and hard to grasp.

A fog sometimes settles in, obscuring the identity of the world. The understanding of it all seems so obscure or at least obtuse.

What I want is to step into “Yes” with energy and enthusiasm. I want to open myself to the totality around me. I want to welcome the world as it is and as it unfolds before me each unique and precious day. I want to see thing as they are and not pine for them to be different. I want to accept their invitation for me to show up. I want a welcoming intimacy with it all.

In truth, it is very attractive to accept each person as they pass by or, in any small way, enter into my sphere of awareness. I want to say “Yes” to them all. I want to become skilled in that form of speech.

I know in my heart that I am part of a wondrous universe, and I want to step fully into that universe without reservation or resistance. I want to shout “Yes” again and again. I want my vocabulary to be reduced to one central word, “Yes”.

Be still my heart, learn to speak that one syllable. Forget the rest. Strip off all the trappings and expectations of culture and enter naked into the wholeness of reality. Learn the native tongue where the most important thing to speak is “Yes”.