<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 23, 2025, at 11:47, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Your Presence in Death</span></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thank you my love for the gift of your presence</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">even in death, because of death.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">It is because of it that the journey you are on </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">is inscribed on my body with the ink of forgiveness;</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it is because of it that having nothing left to lose,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">I have no preference, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">although I care, I care a lot, equally, for everything;</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s because of it that I do not mind being swept in the current </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">with no attachment </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is the current of all opportunities,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a place of opening, receiving, investigating with curiosity, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a neutral place where the light of my divinity is constantly unfolding.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">You offer me the relief of not having another task,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><a name="PageNumWizard_FOOTER_Default Page Style4 Copy 4 Copy 1 Copy 1"></a><font face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to know that the way I see manifests my world,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to be me, whole, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">to become the axis that joins what’s above and what’s below.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t search for meaning, you tell me,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">listen, respond and let meaning be revealed.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">In the world I often visit lately </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">words don’t stand for something else, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">they contain their own irrational meaning and significance.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t ask me to be reasonable, the gods don’t have our logic,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">their smile is ambiguous, it contains the deep sadness</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">that underlines everything we experienced since our earthly birth.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Night is our home, you whisper,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">like the sun we return to it every evening </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">to rise again in the morning, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s a place where all opposites meet, where the paradox reigns.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">And for this we have to do nothing.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">No more running from yourself, enter the darkness with no fear,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">remember, opening to all of life including death is pleasure </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">so, die before you die.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">When we have a taste of eternity</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">we long to return to that unlimited Self</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is our true state of being.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">You can do it in space and time, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">at your own time!</font></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org<br>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>