I’m attracted to Presence, not personality
Presence is self-sourcing, and can therefor listen, witness and serve from a full cup
Presence is flowing throughout all of nature, all of life, all that does not question its worth or its ability to give and receive love
Anchored Presence creates the eco-system in which Source Consciousness is drawn to abide
and flourish
Whereas,
personality has so many conditions
Personality is always trying, trying, trying to
Do Something
Achieve Something
Prove Something
Win at Something
Personality is a puppet that must prop itself up in all kinds of ways –
with looks, talents, charm, status, money, education, credentials, reputation, popularity, belief systems, obsessions, addictions, affirmations, promises, resolutions, approval from others…
(etc etc etc ad nauseam)
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It is Presence that is beautiful to me
Presence will provide shelter
while personality is too caught up in its efforts to impress, improve and survive
Presence will love when no one else will
while personality will be scrambling to fit in, not look bad and avoid judgment from others at all cost
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Presence is a bright light
born of soul embodiment and a cracked open heart
(My flame burns stronger to be near you)
Personality is a trickster, born of mind
always in costume, shapeshifting, dissolving and rebuilding itself
(together, we play dress-up and go to the Masquerade Ball)
Presence is generous
needing nothing to give of itself
taking nothing beyond what is freely given
And in this way, Presence can truly receive
(My waters rush toward you)
Personality is constantly working itself like a slave
to claim things, own things, colonize things –
including ideas, including people, including love
Presence knows the freedom of Surrender
Personality knows the stress and fear of gripping tightly
to the façade of control
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I’m not interested your accolades, your achievements, your striving for more
I’m interested in how you show up with yourself in your darkest hours
How you commune with Gaia, her elements and her creatures
How you kiss the air, how you let the lungs of Creator
breathe you
How you touch Life with your love
How you let love touch you
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Your personality isn’t bad (not at all, please don’t whip it or cast it away)
but it is clothing
and sometimes armor
A veil of separation covering the exquisite truth of you
I’ll be the first to admit – I’m not done with my personality
(or my personality isn’t done with me)
But these days
I like to wear it loosely, scantily
A little seduction, expressing aspects of ego and shadow and power games
A playfulness in knowing
that this temporary shield is coming off very soon
A union of wholeness into wholeness awaits us
in presence to the Now
and by lifting the veil
I stand before Naked Presence
as the Naked Bride
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