AN EXTRAORDINARY ABSENCE A love letter from life to itself How wonderful it is  to have no idea   what is going to happen. To let life surprise you. To wake up every morning  like a newborn baby,  the past wiped clean,  the future a mystery. To know that everything will happen  exactly as it should. To know that there is nothing higher,  more spiritual, more noble,  than getting out of bed,  brushing your teeth,  putting on your clothes,  walking out into the fresh air. To understand that there is nothing to understand. To live every day, every hour, every moment   knowing that it is your last day, your last hour, your last moment. And to know that the last day is also the first, And each final moment a new beginning. To see presence in each and every little thing. To see death not as the enemy  but as profound rest for the weary traveller. To look out at the world and see only a love with no name  reflecting back at you.