Astounding

Astounding:

it’s all pretty astounding, and I mean everything, the universe itself and how it came to be, and even more so that it’s still in expansion, creating the very spacetime needed for the reach of its existence. Here’s one more amazing thing — we’re no less than the universe itself, aspects equal to the whole, participants in this expansion. It’s astounding to think that everything the universe needs to thrive is self-created, there literally is no outside structure for support, no place else to gain material, and we still only have hints and theories of how this is at all possible.

if I were writing of cosmology, string theory, and quantum gravity, this short essay would already be done, completed with the first admission that I know so little of these topics, and being unqualified to comment on even the small amount that I seem to understand. This is about our own cosmology, a personal account of our own expansion, and in being no less than the universe itself — we are perfectly qualified to speak of our belonging here, of our creative capabilities, of how we are participants in this universal design.

the universe is our story.

and it’s astounding.

that’s the joy of meditation, for me at least, that through gentle and easy repetition of my mantra I am again reduced to the purest vibration of true being, just…