a flow of aliveness

animated by a flow of aliveness

 that resists crystallizing into a system of thought or belief -

 although it does not hesitate to enjoy

 thought and belief for the delight or communion they may reveal.

open, free-wheeling, inclusive

 in view and practice, non-definitive, experimental, non-sectarian,

 warm-hearted, and non-attached. 

 embraces the full range of human experience 

while settling nowhere, 

capable of a subtle openness and 

... equally open to spontaneous delight and sensual extravagance. ...

grateful for beauty in all its forms of disclosure, 

recognizing happiness and grief and all 

emotions in between as free offerings of the Unnameable into Itself.

it negates conclusion-making while affirming the indefinable.  

A kind of love-mysticism, it loves

 the edginess and poignancy of human life 

while seeing through its apparency to the stillness within.  

Present without agenda, kind without being moralistic, 

it reaches across the seeming divisions between

 people and societies with the confidence of the light 

that is common to us all.

 ~ Pir Elias Amidon

excerpts from Free Medicine