WORLDS OF POSSIBILITIES ...

© 2009 Howard McQueen
Photo By: Marta Fakhoury (Asheville, NC)

What are the contents of this photo?

A photo of snow falling from the sky?
A photo of stars in the Milky Way?

Our mind expands when we don’t have a fixed perspective, when we cannot judge because we cannot find a scale. We begin to imagine other possibilities.

Snow flakes are crystalline worlds
Like some butterflies or the day lily, their opening, living and loving life all occur within the duration of what we humans label one day. These life forms then begin their journey back to the formless.

The snowflake is born high in the sky, rides the currents, is drawn by gravity, intermingles with other worlds of its own form, and drops to earth. This journey could begin and end in the duration of one minute.

And the fate of this snow flake is to dissolve and merge into the surface of another, much larger form. This merging triggers a transformational change in both forms as they touch: solid crystal form turns to liquid water, nourishing this earth; earth as form then responds by absorbing water and manifesting a myriad of other forms, some microscopic, some gigantic, like the giant sequoia. Through direct experience, available virtually everywhere we walk, nature presents us examples of vast cycles of interconnected-ness - our birth-right. Deep down inside, we feel this calling to a stewardship and reverence to honor ourselves and all life forms nourished by Mother Gaia, the furnace of Father Sol and sustained by that which created and sustains the cosmos and this utterly fantastic interplay.

One follow-up
Now take a moment and view your body and all its organs, connective tissues, systems, structures and cells and realize that this body is your own domain, your own cosmos. And, for the most part, this complex interplay is sustained without any significant effort on your part. What a fantastic arrangement! Honor what you put into your body, how you exercise it, how you treat it and all the surfaces that it comes into contact with. Honor also the interface and interplay inside your mind and the belief structures stored in your mind and how they bring health or dis-ease to this exquisite form you inhabit. Honor your body-as-form for it too is of finite duration.

Slow down | Stop | Take part in the unfolding | Connect with that which is greater than your mind-made self