The question, “What is Life?” has puzzled us for millennia and has produced thousands of answers and interpretations.

Aboriginal peoples, for example, have seen life as a complex, interactive series of relationships—between God and man, nature and animals, etc. Modern science, in turn, views life as an unending display of universes and dimensions, all influenced by a grand intelligence called the zero point field. Religions and philosophers offer us even different cosmologies and worldviews in response to the nature of life.

In this talk I’m offering you a more mystical view of life, one viewed through the lenses of the soul. From this viewpoint, two truths about life leap out for our consideration and jump into the field of our awareness:

1.    Life is a mystery … a wondrous, inexplicable, amazing mystery.

As mystery, life is filled with unpredictable surprises, unexpected treasures, and endless creations. Everything is possible.

What a privilege it is to live in this unknowable Mystery. It invites us to let go into its loving embrace, to say yes to its invitation to invite it fully into our conscious awareness and experience.

2.  You are not separate from life itself … in fact, you area life itself!

Rather than being “just” a human being—implying a sense of separation from life and God—we live in the bigger dimensions of life. Despite all appearances of separation and duality, we are life itself.

As Ervin Lazlo, the famous scientist, has written, “Our separateness is an illusion; we are interconnected parts of the whole ….”

Similarly, John Hagelin, the well known scientist and presidential hopeful, has written, “I discovered for myself that human intelligence, at its core foundation, is universal intelligence, and at that level, you and I and everything in the universe are one.”

Rumi wrote, "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense."

Fra Angelica, a sixteenth century mystic, wrote this in the year 1513:

“Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven in love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brought it to you.”

My invitation to each of us this month is:

➢    To let go into the mystery of life, releasing any need for safety or fear of leaping … and simply invite life, in the magical creative potential of its mystery, to take over your life

➢    To open yourself to identify with life, to become life, to view everything through the eyes of life … and, especially, to see yourself as life sees you: beautiful, precious, deserving and wondrous!