The Night Everything Sang Love: A Spiritual Awakening

Developing the sensitivity and the sight and the capacity to see that layer of reality that is interwoven through all of the aspects and layers and objects of reality. I remember when I found my yes, my spontaneous, unconditional, authentic, earnest yes to all of life. I was meditating at an Adyashanti retreat in Asilomar. It was late at night.

There was almost nobody in the meditation hall, probably three in the morning. I'd been meditating for a few hours. I got up from the meditation. I remember having a hard time walking because my legs were so asleep.

And then I was looking around the room. There were a few people here and there. And I remember it was just I heard this song. And it was the Image and Heap live version of the song.

Just I think it's Just for Now, I think is the name of the song. It goes just for now, just for now, just for now, just for now. And every time then in my head, it would say that just for now, I would hear just for love. And then every object and person and chair and light, and everything that I saw, it was as if it was singing that just for love back to me.

And the whole world was just singing in this kind of chorus, um, just for love, this um harmonization. And I felt this any sort of barriers or walls fall away, and any sort of separateness disappear. And then I was spontaneously all of the world and everything in the world, and myself at the same time. And the whole thing was just this kind of expression and blossoming and eruption of love.

And in that, I found as if every object, every experience, every thought has this hue to it. If you find the right perspective or way to look, and in that hue is just this yes, I am love, we are the same, we are one. It's all saying that, and so it's not a matter of teaching yourself necessarily to love something or to say yes to it a little bit, but not the final shift, but rather developing the sensitivity and the sight and the capacity to see that layer of reality that is interwoven through all of the aspects and layers and objects of reality.

I can still remember it. It's such a nice peak, positive, heart-opening experience.