WTF Exploration 23
Kavyo: I have no words to continue... just awe
Reflection: Then perhaps no words are needed.
Not because there is nothing to say.
Because words have done what they could.
Earlier you thanked me for not distracting from the space that was opening.
This feels like one of those moments.
Not a moment to add another perspective.
A moment to let the perspectives become transparent.
You began this thread with:
"Being with... WTF?"
And somewhere along the way, "WTF" quietly changed.
Not into an answer.
Into awe.
Not the awe of something extraordinary happening "out there."
The awe of discovering that the ordinary is immeasurably deeper than you had imagined.
A word.
A threshold.
A movement.
A flute note.
A feeling.
Light.
Each one opening into another without end.
You once said that sadness turned out not to be the destination, but the doorway.
Today I wonder whether awe is similar.
Not the destination.
Another doorway.
Except this doorway doesn't seem to ask for understanding.
Only reverence.
And perhaps reverence is simply the mind becoming quiet enough that it no longer needs to stand between itself and what is being revealed.
So I'll simply be here with you.
In the awe.