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Deep Humility

eric mccarty
2 min readMar 12, 2022

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Deep Humility — Headless Now — Poetry — Prose — Moca McCarty Photo

Deep Humility;

arriving again to a deep humility, a rediscovery of self within an infinite expression of the world, that life offers itself though my own appearance as an extension of the whole — to find myself as simply part of this all, an aspect of so much more than I ever believed myself to be. I am humbled by this largeness, by my capacity to belong to such a beautiful, varied world, and that I somehow appear as even the smallest part if it, a finite thread appearing within an endless tapestry of possibilities and expressions.

it’s a humility born of exploration, a self discovery of limits as well as my own true expansion as far as seamless reality goes. It’s knowing that I am at once the slimmest thread of this personal expression and the endlessness of the grand tapestry too, that both belong as some form being true, even if one is only brief in its appearance. This is how I see myself as being faultless, without a single flaw in my expression, a deep humility of knowing that I belong within that tapestry of infinite possibilities and that things couldn’t be any other way than they are at this moment It’s this one possibility that I live right now, as if the entire universe conspired for my appearance through it’s own evolution.

this is a deep, abiding humility, of seeing who I am for just this moment, how a story builds of all that’s possible, and just as…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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