778. this idea of get

Into the night, long after the talking had stopped and Von had retired, Kyra rocked and her mind drifted from Trev and Em, to Papa, to Hyneria:

Where there is energy, there is motion, movement. Where there is life, too, nothing stands still. The sun rises, then sets. Rivers flow. Flowers bloom, give of themselves before fade and fall, from soil to soil, so they might say. So place your face to the sky and the warmth you feel is real. Likewise, your hand in the river or your nose to the petal. These things you can trust, this natural order of motion, of life rising and falling, living and dying, the eternal circle of infinite loop, innocent as the skipping child. In this we believe; in this we align. For in the action we find not fiction or imagination, device or design. And know this, Kyra, life wants to live, to flow, to express that which comes naturally, before there is thought, before there is want and need, lust and desire, greed and gluttony. These things are added upon. Do not be deceived. They are not part. Not life living but rather something added, like a barnacle to a ship.

This too, you must learn. Where there is effort, there is misalignment. The sun does not strive nor the river pant. With effort is friction for what fits, fits effortlessly and it is by this shadow of things that we know, by the ease and peace of fit that mirrors the ease and peace of dawn and dusk. Many will tell you otherwise. They will point to what can be achieved, constructed, built. Accumulated. Be wary. What does not move is not life. What does not move of natural ease is outside the eternal movement. You have the gift. Others will see it. But more important my dear one, you must see it. You must know it. And I say to you, you know it not by effort, not by accumulation. You know it by the unlabored flow. Release yourself into this stream. Swim with the current. Leave behind this idea of get.