Ways of Being

You will find here all the posts from the category: ‘Ways of Being’. They are very short texts in which I playfully explore some of the aspects contained in ‘being’. These variations on ‘being’ are presented to you either in a blog list or individually for an easy browsing…

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Ways of Being (in a blog list)

– A Word of Glory (how words fall short to describe truth…)

– Our Sole Horizon (on how the security of being is so close…)

– Hidden Fragrance (on recognising our deepest identity as being…)

– Not A Thing (when there is not a thing to be other than being…)

– An Impeccable Death (on the nature of true ending…)

– A Universal Cure (how acting on the world can be done within…)

– The Silent Heart (on the quiet reality in the heart of our being …)

– One Living Being (on our insistence in being a person…)

– Holy Ground (on the holiness of the ground as being…)

– The Taste of Being (on remembering the taste of your being…)

– Unaccompanied Awareness (on how awareness is not of the mind…)

– Humanness (our humanness borrows its reality in being only…)

– The Fantasy of a Self (there is no self here but in being only being…

– Our Only Landscape (on how simply being is our only completion…)

– The Fragrance of Life (on how truth is first in our experience…)

– An Abundance of Spirit (what there is to notice when slowing down…)

– ‘katholikos’ (on the meaning that the word ‘catholic’ hides…)

– The Possibility We Are In (what is a life lived in and as being…)

– The Birth of Personhood (on what holds our person together…)

– The Ultimate (reflecting on the nature of our most profound being…)

– Remembrance (on the importance of remembering our true nature…)

– Creep (on what loving indifference looks like…)

– The Ending of Time (an inquiry into the concept of the right time…)

– The Formula of Life (how experience is a reflection of ignorance…)

– Entangled Life (on how to disentangle ourself from experience…)

– A False Impression (about the one who is knowing or is aware…)

– The Incandescence of Being (on seeing that you already have it all…)

– The Scrutiny of Now (how the now is met as our innermost presence…)

– The Coveted Jewel (on love as a pathway towards understanding…)

– A Gorgeous Feeling (on the feeling of being myself…)

– A Trail of Glory (on following your being wherever it is…)

– A Light to Yourself (on recognising yourself by yourself…)

– The Fall (how we forgot our identity as pure, unshaken being…)

– Being’s Glorious Life (on how being is pervading everything…)

– The Unknowable (on the unknowable nature of our self…)

– God’s Favourite Child (how being is our nurturing essence or progenitor…)

– The Watcher (a contemplation on the nature of watching…)

– The River of Peace (how peace can be a teacher in life…)

– The Sieve of Life (how life ought to be lived in being…)

– A Simple World (recognising who we are is our most simple task…)

– Hidden Vastness (how presence is pervading our experience…)

– The Will of God (understanding the true nature of God’s will…)

– Wherever You Go (on finding out where being is located…)

– That Flickering Flame (on keeping the flame of being alight…)

– God’s Blind Spot (our apparent self is nowhere to be seen…)

– One Sublime Being (on the essence of the body-mind…)

– What We Have to Do (on the importance of knowing ourself…)

– Arise, O Krishna! (a meditation on Krishna and the Gopis…)

– Let’s be very Clear (on the non-objective nature of God…)

– A Cathedral of Grace (on the distance between myself and experience…)

– On Passing Away (on seeing our reality as being…)

– Isn’t Life a Simple Thing (on how consciousness is all there is…)

– Tainted Self (on the illuminating power of presence…)

– The Doorway to Emptiness (how we thrive as pure, empty being…)

– Anything at All (whatever there is is God’s presence felt….)

– The Perpetual Retreat (Alain Joly)

– ‘Consummatum Est’ (Alain Joy)

– A Ground for Life (Alain Joly)

– A Plea Answered (Alain Joly)

– The Shallow Well (Alain Joly)

– At the Crossroads (Alain Joly)

– The Buddha Nature (Alain Joly)

– The Great Replacement (Alain Joly)

– Taking Sides (Alain Joly)

– The Burning Bush (Alain Joly)

– The Castle (Alain Joly)

– The Incidental Life (Alain Joly)

– The Most Important Thing (Alain Joly)

– A Loss and a Gain (Alain Joly)

– Unconditional Love (Alain Joly)

– The Lazy Worker (Alain Joly)

– A Place of Thankfulness (Alain Joly)

– The Controller (Alain Joly)

– The End of Seeking (Alain Joly)

– The Worth of a Life (Alain Joly)

– A Fabulous Secret (Alain Joly)

– A Disencumbered Now (Alain Joly)

– The Contemplative Mind ( Alain Joly)

– To Know Better (Alain Joly)

– The Program (how all life is contained in being…)

– The Ways of Being (on the friendliness of being…)

– How Difficult is That? (on the ease of being and knowing…)

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Photo by Alain Joly 

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