No one can move a river of emotion like Tom Waits.

In his song, Come On Up To The House, he encourages the listener, to stop playing the victim, the persecuted or the rescuer.
To stop trying to figure it all out and surrender to the fact that you are an embodied spirit.
That you are divinity and this life is temporary.
There is nothing you can do to control your ultimate fate.
So you might as well accept your true nature and live from that perspective.
Ascend your consciousness to higher states of understanding.
Your singing lead soprano in a junk mans choir.
We are all kings and queens, God and Goddesses, yet we don't see how amazing our voice truly is.
To let the ego lead life is the junk mans choir.
You have to let the mind be the servant of the soul.

When it comes to alcohol, there is no "figuring it out".
Logically you understand the mental conflict.
A strong chemical reward is associated with many emotions you experience.
Humans are emotional beings, this is literally how we survive.
The actual sensations in the body created by an emotion triggers the cue and what follows, is a hit of dopamine.
You are simply not use to feeling the sensation of specific states of being and now your body expects it to be replaced with a feel good chemical.

Because of the nature of that chemical, things appear different.
Some how, at times, you feel one with life.
Care free and even connected.
You have shut down the ego for a moment and have a glimpse (although synthetic), of presence.
Of being the Queen Soprano.
But from this state of alcohol, you can't hold the tune.
The feeling quickly fades, so you chase it with another and another.
Until the next day your reality is the Junk Man's Choir and the moon is cracked.

Our culture is void of the subtlety of spiritual connection.
A surrender to the mystery of live it's self.
That Yes, that's as good as it gets.
And who are we to think there should be MORE than miraculous?
An unintentional entitlement when we overlook the bounty at our feet.

When you dive deeper and contemplate the information encoded into organic material that made you.
The abundance of earthly elements alive and intelligent that provide all we need.
You begin to see the magic of everything swirling around you.
The elusiveness of that feeling you can't quite grasp of alcohol, you find in the beat of your heart.
The pulse of the river, the wave of the wind.
The dreams you manifest.
The breath that awakens LIFE.

The practice of surrender doesn't mean forgoing your power,
it means letting go of the beliefs that things should be different than they are, naturally.
You need to look at life from a different view.
You gotta come on up to the house.
The ebb and flow of life is what keeps it interesting.
Without the stark contrast of emotions, everything would be meaningless.
Dive deep and remember what you're REALLY made of.
Star dust, light, water and sound.

"Come On Up To The House" by Tom Waits

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