A portal to life’s glory opened in February 2013. It engulfed me, Peter Pilley, and straight away began to transform me. It took a while to discover that I was experiencing a heart opening. Further along this journey I realised what had opened would forever remain open.
I knew one thing for sure. The wash of new emotions and revelations was pure open-eyed joy. This goodness, this state of grace, was so utterly new to me, when I tried to open my mouth to tell about it, I couldn’t find the words in English!
After this epiphany in 2013, I researched online and questioned close friends. I began to write things down in a digital diary with urgency and at high intensity to tease out meaning from my puzzling new condition of heightened awareness.
In my first 66 years, I had contented myself with “Living to Love”, which is pretty, but superficial. I knew I loved loving. I thought I believed in love. My daily search for love was dedicated, thorough and systematic.
As my heart awakes from a protracted hibernation, my own heart greets me again, and here is where wholesome, healthy “Loving to Live” begins!
And so, I recognise the search for love somewhere outside of me is a self-deluding illusion. I am remade whole again. I am like the baby in its first loving communion with the unknowable beauty of life lived in the eternity of the moment EveryNow.
Today, though 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 still feels as astonishing, as safe and as brand new as it did at its unexpected and brilliant inception.
My EveryNow blog is not here to change you. It is to let you see the bliss and rooted peace that has found a happy home in me, can be yours too!
EveryNow can be yours if you “let go”, if you experiment to make no attempt to judge, to choose to reject, or seek to find. In such a field of Acceptance a flower of bliss grows.
As you begin a practice like this, and then more and more regularly, you concentrate your senses with fierce, permanent and loving attention on the smallest things around you, where you sit, stand, walk or travel. Pause to notice a shape, like a colour, enjoy being able to search these out more often.
Begin to set out expecting to meet more enjoyables on your way. It’s easy to walk about noticing nice things, things that are pleasing.
The most effective way to communicate about the constantly exploding sensations of the deep-seated, unshakable bliss I feel today, is to connect to its source — the heart.
During my first six doldrum decades, I neglected to hold communion with my heart. This means that during these recent years living with my heart in archaeological excavation, I have to learn in baby steps how to speak the language of heart. This will take up all my remaining years. It is the sweetest of all possible challenges!
In 2018, my journal turned into the EveryNow blog, which you can see on www.everynow.blog by WordPress. I am continuing to add to it. It’s ever growing, just like a garden.
I write the everyday stories you’d expect from someone who has had the shock of massive heart opening. I write of love, compassion and praise for the glories of living from the heart.
What you see in this book are less than half of the writings from my EveryNow blog from 2013 to 2025.
I love creative photography. I have been taking photos since I was 12. The illustrations in every blog post are mostly with my own photos or artwork.
I hope you read my blog posts the way you walk with a curiosity all of your own around a new garden in your favourite season of the year. Sniff the odd flower, spot a lacewing, raise your eyes high up into a tree. You’ve never looked and see these before. Because Love is Present EveryNow
The View at 72+ 