Qualities of The Moment

eric mccarty
2 min readOct 7, 2020
Qualities of The Moment — Poetry — Aware — Nonduality

Qualities of the Moment:

so everything seems to be a quality of the moment, that to be aware is simply noting the mood of existence and what appears in its unfolding. This isn’t any claim of a cosmic truth of any sort, and I make no promise that this is so for anyone but me. It may later prove to be otherwise to my own perception as well, I wish to hold nothing past its point of my own observation. But right now I watch the easy flow of things, I listen to the morning song of birds and cars commuting in the distance. My immediate experience is the warmth of coffee in first sip, enjoying the bitterness that somehow still surprises me after thirty odd years of knowing its taste. I write, noting thoughts that turn into words and find their way to a complete idea across the screen. This too is always a surprise, finding myself each morning immersed in a creative mode, expressing whatever comes to mind in a unique way that belongs to only me. I am always grateful that words find me and that I have this time to write, observe my thoughts, and for coffee and the morning songs too. It all seems to come together in a perfect sense, that I am aware of each aspect without break from my attention, everything being expressed as a quality of the moment.

again, I have no idea if this is true, and it doesn’t really matter to me — I’m not in pursuit of any ultimate truth, my days of being a…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student