Some days it seems we can’t even tie our own shoes right, and some days we create things like computers and automobiles. We all experience the ever-present weave of time and all of its oscillations. Within the ego and personal identity, we’ve created a world about ourselves…A world only we know, and we unwittingly tend to it, just like a garden.
What we feed our garden shows outwardly in the world just like a literal garden produces fruit that is reflective of the environment and the conditions that it grew in. If a tomato doesn’t get enough water and has trouble getting calcium, you’ll see that as a brown spot on the bottom. And if it’s sprayed with chemicals, it can’t utilize or understand, that tomato will experience wild transformations or just completely wilt away and die as a result. You are a direct reflection of nature. Your life is the ever-flowing weave of all creation that permeates every tree, every animal, every breath you take, every grain of sand, and every person you meet…. Including yourself.
Living is hard enough on its own and with our ego self we tack on all of these extra things on top to make it more difficult for us to reach the sunlight, when we all have the ability to experience the sun in all of its glory. Isn’t that amazing in and of itself? The sunlight is experienced by every soul in the world, and it provides warmth, healing, sustenance through vitamin D, light so that we can see, all of the colors emanate from its beams, and we all get to experience this crazy phenomenon, because it is a phenomenon…. To witness such incredible qualities from one source.
I am the son – says Jesus. You are your own light – says Buddha. We are the universe says – Source magic.
Everyone is the seed AND the plant that bursts from the darkness underneath. They are both the light and the dark. We have within ourselves every polarity and duality that exists within nature. You have only to look at a mirror to understand this. Which coincidently, is a metaphor for the entire spiritual journey. You have a left side and a right side, completely congruent in every way, almost like you were split down the middle. You have a left hand and a right hand, left brain and a right brain, and yet you are whole…. How does that work? How can you be two things in one? How can a child bare both their mother and their fathers energies together? That is a true fusion. That is a true magic of this world.
You ARE magic.
And just as you are magical, so too is the spiritual, physical, and mental journey that we all get to experience together. Some seeds come out of the ground quicker and bloom faster, but it wasn’t to win a race or to be the first or take pride in its quickness… It was the experience. So that it could share that experience with rest of the surrounding plants and share its knowledge, and beauty, and grace, and resources, and love to the surrounding area. And you get to see this happening in real time. Patience and love are the foundation in which flowers bloom into their brightest. Just because some flowers take longer to grow, like trees for example…some take 8-10 years to bloom fruit, and then there are flowers like sweet violet, periwinkle, dandelions, and purple dead nettles that sprout up just as soon as its warm enough to do so. Every person is on their own path, and every person has their own unique gifts and qualities that make them unique to the world. And every person grows differently, and some need more time than others, for some this could look like many lifetimes over, or generations. But everyone in this world gets to bloom, and this time right now is the greatest time to look and see how beautiful you are. Because YOU ARE a part of the bigger picture. YOU ARE a part of the greater garden. Gods garden. And since we all are from the same source magic, we are both the farmer and the seed. And if we tend to our gardens, and give it space, give it water, give it love…you will start to see a much better version of yourself start to emerge. Like a literal lotus flower. The pearl in the shell is YOU. The gold on top of the pyramid is YOU. YOU are the LIGHT.
So take a few moments and reflect on yourself, be patient and be kind, understand that life is a continuous progression and that change is necessary in order to grow. And “failures” are not failures at all, but lessons to be learned and applied. Give yourself a real chance by accepting yourself for who you are, supposed flaws in all. The light and the dark. The good and the bad, the lost and the found. We are all in the boat called life together, so its imperative that we look at ourselves and be a witness to ourselves. Take note when we are casting shadows over the other plants and unwittingly preventing their growth. Take note when we take more resources than we need and make the other plants suffer. Take note when we cause an overgrowth in ourselves that takes over the entirety of an area and doesn’t allow for any other life to sprout there. Because we all have this within ourselves, we are vibration… we can’t help but oscillate between different vibrations. Otherwise, if a thing doesn’t vibrate, it dies. But NOW is the time to live. And now is the time to recognize the beauty. And now is the time to move past the darkness into the new light. The winter of consciousness is almost over and we are in the spring time now. Lets make the best garden possible. What do you say?