Yesterday something shifted so profoundly within me that it's hard to put into words. |
My work was piling up. Emails, projects,
responsibilities…but something deeper was calling me away from the busy-ness and back into myself. Instead of forcing productivity, I surrendered. I meditated first and then hit the pool. I was floating on an inflatable raft soaking up the warmth of the sun, letting the water hold me, allowing my nervous system to soften, remembering what peace feels
like. |
I entered a peaceful state of simply being... I felt blissfully free. |
As I drifted gently, half asleep…I invited my friend, goddess Lakshmi into the bliss pool. |
And she came. |
Her presence was immediate, radiant, profoundly loving. There was a sweetness to her energy that wrapped around me like liquid gold in the warmth of the sun. Beauty without effort, grace without performance, prosperity as a living frequency of completeness and sacred
generosity. I could feel her in my heart, in my breath, in the water around me. I felt expanded, alive with creativity and luminous awareness. |
I floated with her, absorbing and radiating this frequency of abundance and grace, and then something unexpected happened. |
Behind me, another presence emerged. |
It was vast, golden, enormous, sparkling with Divinity. |
This new presence was so massively luminous that Lakshmi felt tiny beside it. The being towered in radiance, not
frightening, but immeasurably powerful and deeply familiar. Light emerged from it like living sunshine. My entire body became electric, and I turned instinctively to look. |
I asked, in awe, "Who are you?" |
And the answer came
immediately. |
"I am you, of course." |
The words moved through me like a bell ringing through eternity. |
"We are ALL you.” the luminous one declared, showing me a mental image of all of the gods and goddesses, ascended masters, nature spirits, Earth, and endless personalities and archetypes. |
“This is all you." |
And in one breath... my resistance gave way. |
I saw the truth…I knew it. |
The life I had been envisioning, the qualities I had been working so diligently to embody… grace, love, prosperity, beauty, service,
generosity…it all seemed infinitesimally small compared to what I was being shown. |
I saw the absurdity of believing I was a personality trying to acquire spiritual qualities or manifest a better life. |
I was already all that I had been
seeking. |
I was not separate from abundance trying to attract it. I was not separate from love trying to deserve it. I was not separate from divinity trying to earn access to it. |
I was all of it
already. |
And I laughed. |
I was struck by the sheer cosmic humor of it all. The laughter came from realizing I had become so invested in playing this tiny role, this little human with a little personality and carefully managed
desires, while the infinite version of me had been quietly observing the entire time. |
What an extraordinary game this is! |
To forget... and then remember. |
To wander through limitation while carrying infinity within us. |
For a moment, I was allowed to witness reality beyond the game, to glimpse the greater reality of my own luminous nature, the nature of who we all truly
are. |
That is what has shifted. |
Transformation is not something to chase. |
It is not anything we
do. |
It is something we already ARE. |
Fasting, clearing space, surrendering to the moment, and meditation can bring you to the doorway. But what I remembered in that moment was
this: |
Everything I thought I wanted... I already contain. |