As Fruitless as a Fish

"Waiting for love or doing anything to be loved is as fruitless as a fish swimming in the hope of getting wet.  Already, love is who you are.  Love is that which is living your life, breathing your breath, moving your body and all bodies.

Love is wanting to open your heart right now.  You can feel love's desire to flow through your entire body, this very moment.  You have to refuse love to lack it.  You have to close your heart, suppress your breath, and tense your body to feel lonely and empty.  As long as you are doubting or self-guarded, no doing leads to more love."

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"Like a fish in an infinite ocean of clear liquid, feel into the space around you as if it were water.  Inhale and exhale as if you were breathing water's thickness, drawing in and releasing the buoyant clarity surrounding you.  Feel the water pervading your body, softening your feeling-skin open.

From your heart, feel outward through the water of space.  Feel sound as a vibration in this water, like loud music might vibrate your gelatinous core.  Feel the objects around you through the water of space.  Open so your feeling extends through the water on and on.  As you feel out into the water around you, does your feeling end?

Is there a boundary to this moment?  As you feel beyond your immediate vicinity, does your feeling hit a wall, or does feeling open out beyond visibility, like an ocean's open clarity?  Feel through and beyond your vicinity as water without bounds, endlessly opening.

While opening, remaining utterly sensitive, soft, soaked through by the water.  Your heart opens like love-jelly vibrating with every sound, lit up by every color and ray of light.  As people come near you, feel the water between you and them as it thickens or swirls, touching your heart differently with each person's whirl of texture and emotion.  From your heart, feel all.

Extend your feeling without bound, open.  Full of all experience, open.  As the entire moment, open."

~David Deida "Blue Truth"
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