you are not a body. you are life itself

Excerpt: Quest of a Teenage Mystic, page 198-199

“Sean heard no more.  He let go to the sound of the river, the breeze in the trees, the smell of the forest, the feel of the leaves and soil beneath him, the magnificence of the forest before him.  He allowed himself to let go into each leaf, each ray of sunlight.  And he began to expand with each second that he let go.

A hawk’s cry echoed over and under itself, as it reverberated throughout the forest.  Absolute silence whispered in every particle of air, creating a potent emptiness that embraced Sean.  In this emptiness, he knew that in the absence of everything, lies all there is.  A mist began to rise off the waters to welcome a soft rain, and from deep inside, he felt a slight opening to the emptiness.  Shivers of peace shimmered throughout his body.  “I’m here.  I’m now,” the shivers seemed to say. 

He expanded further to become huge and flowing.  He was the river, the breeze.  No, he was more than that.  He was all he had ever been.  He was spectacular, an endless, expanding creation.  He was not a body, he was not Sean.  He had been so many bodies, so many names, but they had never been who he really was.  How could he have forgotten this?  He was a huge and magnificent creation that forever exploded into greater creation.  How could he have forgotten that he was a continual explosion of Love? 

“This is me!”  he cried.  “I am!”  And these words carried him higher.  He rose above mountains, worlds and universes, all who were him, who shared him.  It was then that he felt a Presence all around him, exploding with him, because of him, helping him.  He became so huge and expansive, that something broke and he understood the word limitless.  He extended forever.  There was no end, no beginning, no limit, no loss.  There was only extension… forever, forever extension.  And all this was One, without division. He was deep inside the inside of Life, and deep beneath the underneath of Life.  He let go even more and disappeared completely.”