A woman lay in a meadow gazing up into the evening heavens whispering wishes into the darkness. Tentatively she asked "Star, come and feel the moist soft grass with me?" The star answered. "I am..." The woman said "Star, come and feel cool gentle breeze with me?" The star answered "I am..." The woman said "Star, come and listen to the crickets and owls and sounds of night?" The star answered "I am..." The woman frustrate said, "But you're not! You are millions upon millions of miles away and I am alone and lonely, come and share the night with me." The star only responded "I am..." Angry the woman grab a rock and threw it towards the night sky. She paused then heard a soft thud as the stone landed in the darkness echoing her sense of isolation. Feeling denied her wishes, the grass felt wet, the breeze was now cold and the sounds of the night were jarring and harsh. She felt miserable and abandoned. The night had been beautiful within the hope of sharing it. It was in the thought of loss and separation that it change. One last time she pleaded to the star "Please join me?" The star then answered "I am... I am a part of you, in every essence you are made from me, before your imagined beginning to beyond your imagined end I am with you... I am in the grass and the breeze and in the heart of the sounds of the night... and you are in me. You were never alone, it's only your thoughts that have made it so. The woman felt her skin tingle. She began to be aware she was vibrating, a high singing vibration that made her feel weightless, almost transparent. As the resonation grew it was if the whole universe was collapsing into a single singing bubble around her. Everything was vibrating through her, in her, like cords in a vast symphony.... the grass, the breeze, every flutter, every movement. Deserts and oceans, mountains and streams, the stars, the moon, galaxy upon galaxy... All within her reach. She saw herself in it all and all of it inside her. She slowly rose as if in a dream, her eyes wet with tears. Her heart was so full that it overflowed into every essence of her being. She felt every atom dancing... there was no beginning and no end. Like starlight, she was beaming a soft gentle glow. She did not speak but only raised her face to the heavens and breathed in the night air. She was bathed in starlight and it danced within the reflection in her eyes. If you looked closely, there you would find universe upon universe inside her. |