Experiential Asset
Kings serve themselves in such vast quantities that the abundance overflows on those who maintain and APPRECIATE their reign.
Material Daddy picked me up from the airport, and this was a demonstration of service to himself which was so abundant as to flow onto me.
Material Daddy loves his truck and just got it back with a new transmission he needs to test out. He loves driving. He loves knowing I’m safe, and most of all he loves being in my presence.
He loves how he’s only appreciated and never criticized, how I’m constantly reflecting his value and his intellect. Service is always symbiotic (or I don’t want it).
Appreciation is not a moral issue. It's not a "more right" way of being.
Appreciation is about increasing the value you reap from your experience, and increasing the value your experiencing brings to the world.
Appreciation is what is is called when an asset increases in value.
Your experience is the ONLY asset, and it is nonmaterial. The only purpose of the material is to increase the value of the one and only asset—your experience of this now moment.
Far from being hedonic or purely pleasure-seeking, this practice gets us intimate with every shade of life's experiences, at once freeing us from being beholden to our preferences AND freeing us to pursue them with holistic and gentle abandon.
The practice of appreciation is being a YES to the here and now, and carrying my attention and experience toward every here and now which is a YES for me.
When feelings arise—YES and I express them.
When the moment is here, what is a YES, and how do I offer my most exquisite attention to that?
In the practice of flowing my most exquisite attention on the world, I offer men a visible template for what delights me. Those who crave to receive this attention follow the map of my desires to claim my attention, and this is only sustainable when my desires are compatible with his way of being.
I remain in appreciation in every moment, because that's the experience I most prefer to have of this sacred life.
I allow entropy to handle anything that's not a fit. Yes, Thank you, Something Like This.
