PETER PILLEY REFLECTS ON EVERYNOW
A portal to life’s glory opened to me in an unexpected and brilliant burst of inception in February 2013. It engulfed me, Peter Pilley, and straight away began to transform me. Some time passed before I discovered that I was experiencing an epiphany, a heart opening.
This wash of unknown emotions and revelations was so utterly new, when I tried to open my mouth to talk about this state of grace, I could not find the words in English! Slowly, I came to realise what had opened would forever remain open.
EveryNow speaks for itself. I write about the cultivation of a belief system linked to my personal view of the world I live in, in relation to the most sacred centre of my integrity. The belief systems my writings rely on and navigate by come from never-ending sources of ancient established spirituality. I hardly know what labels apply. The structures owe their existence to Zen, Taoism, Apophatic Mysticism, and to good old Powers of Positive Thinking, amongst others.
My day to day, moment to moment, intense experience of being newly alive and in life began with a starburst of gentleness. This delicious newness continues to demand I share it to the best of my ability.
I say the epiphanies I have lived can be available as positive transformative experiences to other people. My life story as I know it tells me I have nothing uniquely of my own making to impart to the world. I am so graced by the massive shifts in my life, I will not ignore them, nor keep them to myself. I am all about sharing, like friends, wonder-struck, in a scented, colourful garden for the first time.
I am just this guy with his blog and the delicious sense of being on fire with love flames that burn and consume nothing.
After this epiphany in 2013, I researched online, close questioned friends. I began to write a digital journal. I searched with urgent intensity to tease out meaning from my new condition of incandescent awareness.
During my first six doldrum decades, I neglected to hold communion with my heart. I had contented myself with “Living to Love”, which is pretty, but superficial. I knew I loved loving. I thought it enough to believe in love. My daily search for love was dedicated, thorough and systematic.
A time comes when the search for love somewhere outside of me becomes plainly pointless, like chasing shadows. When I begin Loving to Live from the heart is when I start to be remade whole again, which means I join in with humanity as yet another “Pixel of Humanity”
Today I am at peace and at ease with my experience of being alive in this completeness of sentience in the moment, a gift I call EveryNow. It amazes me how it still feels as astonishing, secure and as unremittingly brand new as it did at the start of my unforeseen gentle earthquake in 2013.
My EveryNow blog is not here to change you. I am not about promotion. I proffer no message, hold out no quick fix lists. You can read it as an organic journey of awakening. It may let you believe that the bliss and rooted peace which has found a happy home in me, can be yours too, if you “let go”, if you experiment with trying to avoid judgement, or stop discarding one choice over another. The potential at the birth of all choices has equal value.
It can be enough to “Chat to Things”. Concentrate your senses with fierce, daily and above all uncritical, unconditional loving attention on all the tiny nearby things and beings, wherever you sit, stand, walk or travel. And then? Will they chat back at you?
In 2018, my journal turned into the EveryNow blog, which you can see on www.everynow.blog by WordPress. I now have readers in roughly 30 countries. I am still adding to it. It’s rooting, branching, ever growing, much like a garden.
Mine are the everyday stories of someone who is daily willingly reliving the trauma of massive heart opening. I write of love, compassion and praise for the glories o9f living from the heart. I illustrate my blog posts mostly with my own photos or artwork.
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