There's a pretty sweet storm rolling in from off of the ocean.
Tiny droplets of water have begun to stream down the window in front of me and through a cracked door, I can smell the sea.
Right now, life is full of sukha-- especially in the middle of a storm.
Today was one of those days, where things just made sense....
In the middle of lunch, in between sips from my maca-goji smoothie and laughter with a friend, my heart became full of gratitude and light, randomly for no reason whatsoever, I looked up at the vastness and just......understood.
I understood everything about the universe and God and life and love..and for some reason, at that moment....it just clicked.
The world made perfect sense...and I understood the complexity and simplicity of it all....
All at once.
I have these moments frequently.
Like the instances when I'm driving in the car and I'm looking at the world pass me by through the window, and he grabs my hand, and I can feel the love...
Or those fragments of time when I'm doing yoga and I can literally feel my heart breaking open.
I find those moments in the laughter of children, in his laughter when he laughs at me and the moments where I just want to crawl into him forever and ever, in the smell of wood burning, the way my fingers feel when sand rushes through them and the feeling of sun shining against my skin.
In the way my heart beats into my soul at the very instant when I fall asleep.....
These are the moments where I just know...that life is much bigger than me.
That every little detail in every single day is exactly as it should be.
That there is no reason to worry, we are all here to learn, to live, to fail, to find redemption.
We are all here, together, going through the same struggles, day in, day out...
These moments of clarity prove.....that we are safe. Always safe.
And then the rain comes.
In all its glory...
With thunder and lightning it washes the past away, and through the glimmer of residual water, it proves that the future is bright for all of us......and once again, nature proves itself to be the greatest remedy.....
It is through nature...through love.....that we find these moments....and in these moments, we can finally hear the voice of God.
"Fortunately, healthy people experience almost daily flashes of vision- the peak experience- which makes us aware that there is something badly wrong with our basic assumptions: they bring the flash of 'absurd good news'"
-Colin Wilson
