Silent starlight — what you are

There is something in our fullness that scares us.

It shakes us to our core. It reveals to us that we are something deeper.

And when our core shakes, it’s an earthquake in the mind; shudders of starlight strike on the ground of our life like asteroids.

When we know ourselves in our fullness – when we recognise ourselves as something greater than we appear – we don’t inflate our day-to-day qualities.

Instead, we undo ourselves totally.

Undone, we are revealed as something surpassing all our prior ideas.

And what is this?

We are not great because we hold dominion over the earth.

We are great because the earth is great, and we a part of it.

Our being is a wholeness, a flux shared between the stars and the rivers, the wind and the trees.

We are a great movement, born of and into a greater movement.

I am inspired by the intuition that the universe is not one but whole – an awakened symphony.

I doubt there is a soul, but I know that to name the soul in human nature is to point towards a fullness that we do not understand.

Like the secret infinity of starlight, this fullness stands silent. It is hidden not in spite of – but because of – its depth and greatness.

The tired human, his knees creaking, her joints aching, ripples of his wrinkles meeting the midday Sun – she too is this greatness.

You are too.