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Agreement

eric mccarty
2 min readJan 25, 2022

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Agreement — Poetry — Headless Now — Misty’s Agreement — Moca McCarty Photo

Agreement:

it’s all in agreement, at least that’s the simplicity of being, everything fits in with this, that we are being with whatever is present to the moment, no exceptions. Right now I’m awake in the very early morning, sitting at my desk, and waiting for my coffee to cool enough for first sip. As words come to me and take shape to form a phrase, I type, pause to consider, and once more a flow of words appear. I am being as I am most every morning, before dawn meditation, writing, coffee. It’s the consistency of being, for me at least, but on a deeper note there’s emotions and other issues at play here, whatever mood I seem to find myself, how my body feels today, my specific state of health — this is all beingness aligned to present point, an agreement to conditions found, just as they appear.

even my wish for something other than this belongs.

that I am being discontent.

nothing is excluded.

and that’s the great agreement, that absolutely nothing is left out from this, everything is being exactly and only what it is and could ever possibly be. It’s that simple. More so, it’s truly what we are at our most fundamental level, an agreement of molecules to form cells in order to to be mind and body, for particles to swirl themselves as atoms and agree to be the common bond of matter — and for emptiness to be the allowing…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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