The Bridal Chamber

   

Fall into your heart. Rest. Pulsate. It is astonishing when the heart falls in love with itself, gazing into the mirror of its own awareness, and you discover the Beloved whom you sought for lifetimes outside you, here waiting to gaze back from deeper inside than your own soul. You do not have to seek the Beloved anymore. Just look into the one who has been seeking. For the Beloved has always been waiting to gaze back from the mirror I Am. This is why, when God told Moses the divine Name, it was doubled, repeated twice, as you are to yourself: I Am that I Am. 

Is this not the sound of your own heartbeat? "I Am, I Am, I Am..." We completely miss the sweet flavor of Truth when we speak of non-duality as opposed to duality, as if they are two different things. They are not. How could they be two if all is one? Divine relationship vibrates in the unity of silence.

 In the One has always been a divine Other. Here is what God is always doing in the depths of your aloneness. When you see that the Beloved is already here, when you see that the resonance of Lover and Beloved is the very structure of consciousness, the very paradox of self-awareness, then waves of loving-kindness flow out of your heart over cities and forests, rivers and hills, into the moon, the sun, the galaxies, the space beyond the galaxies. Nothing is outside you. The whole creation is your gesture of intimacy. 

From this moment on, there can be no distance, neither any loneliness; for every relationship of subject and object is but a hologram of your heartbeat, a pulse of I Am that I Am. In the world's wisdom traditions, this divine intimacy of the Self with itself is the mystical marriage of Christ and Magdalene, Radha and Krishna, Isis and Osirus. They are the eternal Lover and Beloved in the abysmal mirror of pure consciousness. 

Wake up inside your own waking, and be astonished! Discover the lovers in the throb of your very astonishment. There is a diamond at the center of the golden rose in your chest. The faintest breath takes you there. The diamond has ten thousand facets, ten thousand names, each an intimate doorway. In the stillness at the core of this jewel is a Bridal Chamber. Enter. Rest. Tremble.

Stained glass: Lover & Beloved, Christ and Magdalene, Kilmore Church, Scotland