Align

       

You are not here to blame, to judge, or to be "right." You are not here to save the world. Many have tried to save the world. They are gone yet the world is still here. 

You have come for a greater purpose: to align with the golden sun of Beauty shining from the core of your chest. That is the Christ. 

Resting as inner alignment allows your outer form to manifest the gift of personhood. You are not a collective. You are not a group identity. 

You are here like a raindrop to make the world more beautiful by giving the Sun an exquisitely particular place to dance. You are here to embody the ocean in a tiny bead. 

Nature longs to hear your local note, single in her all-pervading symphony. Without you, the harmony would not sound quite the same. 

O Friend, align your body, breath, and mind with the Sun in your heart. Relax into radiance. Your gift will arise without effort, gentle as the next inhalation. 

Many resist this gracious process because the intellect wants to feel like the doer of creation. Does a sunbeam “do” the sun? No, it is but fallen light, descending from glory to glory, through air and water into soil. 

You are a beam, falling, dancing on waves, illuminating a clod of earth. The gift is not your work but your play. Let doer-ship dissolve into wonder.

Artist: Al Choi