presence: “… This one bottomless moment is all there ever really is ...” ~ Joan Tollifson
What is this bottomless moment ? Is it pointing to what we might call “presence?”
If kindness is the doorway, pause the threshold, and patience the unfolding, then perhaps presence is the room itself – where the sense of personal self finally loosens its hold, revealing a peace that was always here … already!
Not something newly found, but something that was somehow overlooked.
In the movement of our everyday life, it seems we are always on the way to something else: something clearer … more resolved … more complete. And yet, that movement – even its sense – appears within what is already present.
The same presence in which thoughts arise and pass … in which restlessness comes and goes … in which even the feeling of being someone appears and fades.
What we call presence may not be something we enter, but something that has never been absent – unaffected by what comes and goes within it.
It was always – and already – here.
Is “this” where the search for peace – current or future – loosens its hold?… 🙏 …
In the end, nothing needs to be added to this bottomless moment … not a different experience … not clarity … not even stillness.
What is here does not stand apart from presence.
It is the expression of it.
Could this realization be the key to peace?
May you rest into … what is already here.
The Opening Tollifson quote is from The Usefulness of Uselessness: What good is nonduality? by Joan Tollifson – Substack.
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