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The Real Secret

eric mccarty
3 min readMar 27, 2022

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The Real Secret — Headless Now — Poetry — Prose — Moca McCarty Photo

The Real Secret:

here’s my own secret of inspiration and creativity — that whatever words wish to be expressed will find their way to me with certain ease, and that there’s never a need for me to do anything but simply prepare myself though the present silence, an easy wait of knowing that words will always appear completely on their own. Indeed, this is perhaps the real secret of manifesting our desires, with nothing being truly missing from the moment of our wishing, being blessed right now by the very breath of our existence. Anything beyond this isn’t yet ours, and we are not given the means, nor control of its delivery.

life handles the details of all that’s given.

the real secret is silence, patience, and being grateful for this moment.

it’s being unattached to the means of a particular outcome.

of course that’s a tricky balance to consider, having any desire is a subtle form of attachment to an outcome. Yet life is constantly delivering the fulfillment of it’s own desire, we are met with conditions given for the need of every breath, we have sunlight and abundant water sources, fields and the means to utilize them for planting. Life has given us plenty, fulfilled our base desires. Although certainly there are many people largely lacking the basic needs for their comfort, and so many who struggle for mere…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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