The Direction of Ability & Vision

​Gratitude & Detachment
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We seek the trust
that we have a home,
a place with each other.
Where we may live through
our essence of love and light.
Knowing ourselves
through learning to know each other.
Embracing the paradoxes of relationships
and ourselves, to find our future together.
Learning to be your self but also
to merge together in the grace of love.
Gratitude

Knowing the reality,
of what is required
and what is frivolous,
releases life for living, naturally.

Gratitude reveals false perception,
of expecting something new to show up.
Thankful for uniting to us
what seems separated from us.

Aware of what was there all along,
hiding behind our illusion.
All that is, always present,
always enough because it is all.

True gratitude is understanding,
the universe as it is,
ourselves as part of all,
and the perfect flow of existence.
Greed drives the world. It’s a drive that will  erode our future and destroy us. There are many aspects of greed. One aspect is that it is a distraction. We have a direction that we are going in, and a pretty bobble distracts us. The bobble is a transitory object of obsession, a toy. Not only does it pull us off our track, but it usually derails us permanently. 
Another aspect of greed, is our not knowing how much is enough. We may begin by eating modestly, enough to sustain us. Then we find that we can have more. We enjoy and are distracted by the favoring, the variety, the quantity. Then we eat more, then far more than needed. When we begin, we eat till satisfied. Then we eat more until we feel overly full. Yet we are still not satisfied. Finally we eat until we make ourselves sick and unhealthy. 
We simply don’t know when enough is enough. We have forgotten how to be grateful for what is provided. Gratitude comes from the knowledge that there is enough for me, more than enough. It strengthens if I realize that I can share the abundance with others. 
Gratitude is not cleverly manipulating the universe to provide even more for you. Greed is a form of hoarding and stockpiling at the expense of other creatures on this earth. We deny their existence to save our own.
Detachment

The only detachment needed,
is that from self, from the “I”.
“I” seeks to continually define itself, 
for fear of dematerializing.

Attachment to people, things, ideas,
is a chase to validate an illusion,
clothe in radiance a ghost,
bring substance to a shadow.

Uncoupling from the specter of “I”,
releasing Essence to be and live
in a world of flow and pure being.
Without a need to attach for value.

Moving through the beauty of the world,
free of the burden of “I”,
you become what is in front of you,
joining your Essence with the unique moment.
Greed stops through detachment. You are not detaching from the world, you are detaching from your false sense of self – the ego, the “I” that brings suffering through greed. 
The “I” needs things, people and ideas to continually reinforce the fallacy that it is real and exists. The “I” is a concept of convenience for your use in daily life. But it becomes the horse with no reins that runs rampant with your cart. It fears the truth that it has no substance, so it clings to things to prove its own existence.
Detachment picks up the reins, realizing that the horse is not the cart. It becomes your decision, not the horse’s, when to attach the horse to the cart for your use. Detaching yourself from the “I”, unhooks you from the greed of “I” that tries to secure its future through acquisition of goods, people or ideas. Greed is an attachment to the future, which completely removes you from this present moment. Greed cannot trust the future so it constantly acquires and hoards more. 
When we detach from the “I”, we are free to join this unique moment that we are experiencing. We express gratitude for the truth that all we need is provided to us. With this change in perspective, we have the new awareness that there is abundance everywhere, for us all.