Sit for a moment in stillness and ponder this. Just wherever you are, in a cafe, at home sitting quietly in your room, behind your desk at work, even in your car waiting at a red traffic light.
Close your eyes, breathe, and notice: there beneath everything is a sense of ‘I am.’
Not I am this or I am that. Not your roles, not your history, not your beliefs, ideals, or life circumstances. Just.. I am. Pure, simple, beingness. It’s underneath sensations, underneath your breathing, before your thoughts and even before your heartbeat.
That I am-ness is open, uncontained, dynamic, pure.
It’s the foundation beneath all else. The foundation of beingness. Your beingness. All beingness.
Now, when you next look at a tree, or watch a bird fly across the sky, or how your cat stretches out in the sun, or see a dog playing with a ball, notice the extraordinary fact that that same I am-ness is present there in them too.
It’s in everyone you meet. It’s in the eyes of the tiny mouse that looks at you and pauses, checking if it’s safe to cross the kitchen floor. It’s in the delicate moss on an old fence, in the trickle of a forest stream, in the softness and colour of flowers and what gives frangipani and jasmine their sweet scent, and how also a magnolia tree in full bloom holds its magnificence.
The same presence. The same being. The same I am-ness of being.
All other life forms become aware of their existence through you, through your conscious awareness of them, by your recognition of their beauty, form, and presence, as they share the same beingness as you.
When you walk into the depth of a forest to sit quietly, you’ll feel yourself surrounded, embraced by that foundational beingness. You breathe it in, and your nervous system softens and calms, as you return to rest.
This is why the natural world is so profoundly beautiful, harmonious, and perfect.
What you are sensing and witnessing is not something separate from you.
The beauty ‘out there’ is the same being that lives ‘as you’.
This is why nature heals and why there is even such a thing as beauty.. and why that beauty stirs your soul. The same I am-ness that you witness in yourself in stillness is the same I am-ness of being that is present in everything.
At the moment you genuinely see this, you’ll remember you are not apart. You are whole. Not lost or missing. But have arrived. You are the same life, the same being, the same I am in everything.
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