Divine Presence

From the essence of the Self bloom all things - the worlds, the forms, the bodies, the awareness - all of it an expression of the One immanent, pervasive Life.

One looks inward and sees, in moments of calm, that the essential is but the Core, the Life, the Essence of Oneself. That ceaseless inner radiance One feels, which fuels every single drop of Experience.

One looks outward and realizes, in moments of clarity, that the forms are but cohesions directed and synchronized by intelligent forces, all of them manifestations of one same source energy: one which aims towards growth, purpose. The forms bloom forth/flow out from the Source as a myriad rivers from a spring, as a thousand forests from a seed. Like light radiating onto a screen, the quintessence of Life encounters the clay world of matter and projects upon it its eternal dance - throughs individuals, stories, suffering, joy, strife, striving, failure, triumph, and cycles It produces reflections of Itself, It creates actors and plays to depict Its Divine Substance.

And I find myself betwixt these sides of Awareness. This human actor, the recipient of these bodies and skills and stories, am but a finite subset, one small unit of the Whole. A single speck in the painting of Life, one cog in the machinery of this cosmic music box. My whole human life, all I know, all I've seen, all my cares: a grain of sand in the Beach of the Heavens - in this threshold between the Ocean of Consciousness and the malleable, shapeable Land of Forms.

Yet I feel not insignificant, nor deprived from worth or from love. For I see that the Divine Fluid is as true within my own finite awareness as it is within the brightest star. The same soul of Divine Music rests in me as it does in the tiniest life form, in the filthiest forgotten corner, in the highest angel, and in the most refined of Minds. We are One River, You and I, flowing eternally through our Own Bloodstream, Bones, and Breath, gathering thereby the experience that nourishes us (through pain and pleasure) and spurs us to further refinement, power, and knowledge, so that we may even better manifest the Divine. And in so doing, We live, dance, and play.