~ lovingly presented by Bill Bauman ~
The French novelist Marcel Proust once wrote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” Please let your own eyes be refreshed and renewed as you read through the following vision of life.
We as human beings are not only present to life and self in the traditionally defined, limited and narrow ways we’ve come to believe. We live as a dynamic part of an interconnected, interwoven multiple universe; we are multi-dimensional beings. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
Every minute of our lives we are an active, intimate part of the universe’s vastness and can find our full identity in the beauty and wonder of the infinite. With our every breath we inhale the life-filled richness of the whole universe
I’d like to invite us a three-step journey into our all-ness, our vastness, our infinity:
1. See yourself as divine. Recall that everything that is God lives in and as us. Now, experience yourself as the divine—see the divinity and perfection of your body, your cells, your skin, your breath, your person, life itself. As the Buddha said, “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
2. Step now into the radiance of Light. Picture your perfect, divine self as filled with divine light—perennially present, ever ebullient, all radiant. Recall that, as a light being, your light is continually reaching out to touch and bless every person and circumstance within your awareness.
3. Look now all around you—into the world in which children see seemingly imaginary friends … into the pure angelic realms … into the heart of the planet and universe, where we’re all one … into infinity itself where we share life’s pure essence. In the words of the Holographic Paradigm, “Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize the universe, all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.”
At every moment we’re sparkling with the universe’s glorious light … we’re pulsing with the divine’s splendor … we’re celebrating life’s multitudinous creation … we’re experiencing life’s love pulsing in our heart … and we’re being absorbed into the delicious celebration of life that is happening all around us, deeply within us, and exuberantly through us.
Now for the best part: We can access and have the full experience of this expansive life and vast self simply by sitting in the midst of our personal or collective soul. The 19th century philosopher Novalis, wrote, “The seat of the soul is there, where the inner world and the outer world touch. Where they overlap, the soul is in every point of the overlap.”
So, if you’re feeling alone, down, small or afraid, please invite yourself into the amazing soul that lives everywhere in you … and just sit there for awhile:
• long enough to hear its sweet tones, and the song of life itself
• long enough to feel the touch of the divine tickling your insides
• long enough to recognize the vast, expansive life that is dancing, singing and partying all around your inner pain
• long enough to sense the love that is massaging your inner torture
• long enough to feel connected with the God, the Light, the Grace and the Magnificence of life itself
• long enough to find yourself … and in finding yourself, to find the all-ness of life that you are.
• indeed, long enough to find comforting refuge and empowering strength in that ultimate life … long enough to be and feel filled with that life’s thrilling wonder … and long enough to be transformed into Life itself.
In conclusion, please enjoy this remarkable poem by the 14th century Muslim mystic Hafiz:
The sky is a suspended blue ocean.
The stars are the fish that swim.
The planets are the whales I sometimes hitch a ride on.
The sun and all light have forever fused themselves
Into my heart and upon my skin.
There is only one rule on this Wild Playground,
Every sign Hafiz has ever seen reads the same.
They all say:
“Have fun, my dear;
My dear, have fun
In the Beloved’s divine game.
O, in the Beloved’s divine game.
Thank you for being such a beautiful manifestation of infinity. I love you!
Blessings to you!
