How do we love reality in all its messiness? With its crude edges, its weight of suffering, its unpredictability? How do we stay present with what is demanding, unclear, or painfully sharp?

In this episode, I explore what it means to be in love with reality. Not as a sentimental idea, but as an act of surrender. It begins with a simple seeing: there is only this moment. Nothing else. Not yesterday’s stories, not tomorrow’s anticipation. Only this. And in this single moment, everything that arises also passes. A breath, a word, even our prayers vanish back into silence.

What remains is the shock that anything happens at all. The fact of existence is the great Mystery. To love reality is to bow before that Mystery, to let go of grasping for comfort and resisting what hurts. It is to stop demanding explanations, and instead allow reality to be exactly as it is.

This kind of love is intimacy. It is the recognition that you and reality are not two. Every whisper, every tear, every laugh is reality moving through you. Nothing stands apart. In this, the struggle falls away, and what remains is wonder. What remains is love.

I close with a contemplative exercise I call Bowing to Mystery. It invites you into stillness, into seeing how appearances come and go, and into surrendering both clinging and aversion. Through this practice, you may sense that life is not happening to you but as you.

This is the intimacy of being in love with reality. This is the face of God.

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