Meditation

I found this meditation and wanted to share it:


I was taken to a space within the earth. I was kept moving until I reached a space so deep within Mother Earth that there was no life at all. The walls of the inner cave were very dark and cold. I was completely alone. As I settled in, my thoughts dissipated until I became part of the stillness. It was cold and dark and still. There was no outer thought to distract me, there was only stillness.

Very gently, I became aware of a presence- one that permeated the entire space. It was the consciousness of Mother Earth. It was pure peace, a pure knowing. I reached out and touched the walls. I was amazed to feel the presence of pure potential. Deep within this space, the creations of mankind seemed temporary and trivial. There was more life within the unformed energy of the silence than in much of the busy-ness that occurred on the surface. Here was a great knowing and a great contentment.

As I was moved up from the cave into the light above, I saw life expressing. Trees, flowers, grass, sun- all manner of beauty was expressing around me. This, then, is how life should express. No competition, no comparing. Each form beautiful and radiant in its own right, and each form with a beginning, a harvest, and an ending. Each form being silently supported by the mother who lies quietly beneath.

How often has the current "harvest" of my life been the most important thing in my mind? How often have I measured my life with a set of standards that I seek to achieve, only to find myself falling short. I, too, blossom, harvest and end. Yet I move effortlessly to the next task because deep within there is a space where no outer life is being expressed. There is a space within me that has complete knowing,that houses such potential that I can't even imagine. There is a space within me that silently supports every dream that I seek to grow. There is a space within me where I am One with God.