“To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love,”  – Nisargardatta

The events and circumstances of our lives are like a murmuration. Each life, viewed singly, appears separate and alone, determined only by individual choices and actions. But our lives are a continuous string of relationships and events, each touching and influencing the next, touching the next, and the next, and the next. From long before our birth, to long after we die, it’s all a Union, a beautiful dance, the play of Life itself.

“Leave the familiar for a while..

let your senses and bodies stretch out

like a welcomed season

onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Sky.

Make a new watermark on your exuberance

and love.

Like a blooming night flower,

bestow your vital fragrance of joy

and giving

upon our intimate assembly.

Change places in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

lie beside an equator

in your heart.

Greet Yourself

in your thousand other forms

as you mount the hidden tide and travel

All the hemispheres in heaven

are sitting around a fire

chatting

while stitching themselves together

into the Great Circle inside

you.”

~ Hafiz ~