Being
human is really cool! We all play a part
in this story. It’s good conquering
evil. A love story bloomed from anger
and rage. It’s that moment you realize
that you are more powerful than you ever gave yourself credit for.
With
every sun rise begins a new chapter in this book we are writing. We live the story collectively. We are all connected, like flowers that vine
upon the Earth. We feed and comfort each
others needs. We all start off as weeds
and our existence is based upon growing, like a vine that stretches towards the
sky, building upon the old and reaching for the new.
The
mind and ego are like a drug to the spirit, feeding us emotions that motivates
and shapes this human reality. Like
music to movement it is sound that vibrates the waves of the ocean.
Now
it took me a few years to understand this connectedness we have to each
other. Like a spiral there are layers of
understanding; deeper meanings behind every lesson.
And
the ocean is a good place to begin. We
are like water. The human body contains
anywhere from sixty percent to seventy two percent water. The human brain and heart is composed of
seventy-three percent water; the lungs eighty-three percent water (water.usgs.gov/edu/propertyyou.html).
As
Yoko Ono put it, “You are water, I’m water; we’re all water in different
containers. That’s why it’s so easy to
meet. Someday we’ll evaporate together.”
The
Theory of Evolution says humans evolved from water. At the early stages of development, human
fetuses still have a gilled slit system as a result of evolution. We are surrounded by water while we are in
our mother’s womb.
Water
is very significant in spirituality as well.
We bless ourselves with water.
Water is used in baptisms. Water
is cleansing. Water connects us. It’s
even in the air.
There
is a poem by Alice Walker called, “When You See Water,” that I had found to be
very helpful in understanding this connectedness. It goes like this:
When you see water in a
stream you say: Oh, this is stream water;
When you see water in
the river you say: Oh, this is water of the river;
When you see ocean water
you say: This is the ocean’s water!
But actually water is
always only itself
And does not belong to
any of these containers
Though it creates them.
And so it is with you.
