The Gift of Presence

I found the below on Facebook and I just love it.  I needed it at that time.  

I believe the author is Mary Anne Byrne.

Enjoy...

The Gift of Presence

Just be present, and let everything be.

Stop pushing against the moment, stop resisting what already is.

You don't need to fix it, change it, judge it, or escape it.

Let go of the striving, the grasping, the tightening around how life should be.

There is peace in your softness.

A deeper stillness in surrender.

Let what comes, come.

Let what goes, go.

Stand as the witness, aware, open, untouched at your core.

Even if the mind races, even if the emotions swell, you can remain here, in the space of allowing.

No pushing.

No pulling.

Just presence.

The breath flows in, the breath flows out.

Life moves, and you remain still within it.

This is not giving up.

This is waking up, to the quiet intelligence moving through all things.

You don't have to hold the world up.

You only have to let go.

In surrender, there is freedom.

In stillness, clarity.

In simply being, you return home.

'This gift of Presence'.