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Elves Chasm - Grand Canyon

“Consciousness is a singular

of which the plural is unknown.”

— Erwin Schroedinger, Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist

“Be One with the water!”

I tell myself

this is to be authentically

intelligently

truly me

It is to know my Self

as water

and fire

and earthen stone

and wind

to be One with the River

is to know how to flow

how to adapt this self

to the particularities of circumstance

Crystal’s raging rapid or tube sucking whirlpools

or the 4.5 billion year old secret quiet

of liquid polished mirror ebony Vishnu Schist

letting go and embracing

Now

while also and always flowing true

To be One with the River

is to know my inseparability

my elemental belonging

rightness and

connectivity

with all that is

For who can say

whether the River begins

with a rain drop

or if its womb

is in the ocean deep?

All that is River

All that is Water

is who I am too

some 90 percent at birth

some 70 percent perhaps — if I die old

So let me be true

to my nature too

awaken

and flow

and adapt

transform

and cut and shape what appears as solid stone

by running

breathing

dreaming

living true

nurturing Life all around me

knowing

That too

I Am.

“Everybody understands the single drop

merging into the ocean.

One in a million understands the ocean

merging into a single drop.”

— Kabir

Note: This return and reintegration from a Grand Canyon boating trip was my most difficult of the 6 I have made. More on that anticipated in the next post, however…

I dedicate this post to readers Brenda Loew, a healthcare practitioner who knows the Oneness I point towards, and Darvas Boxes, without whose encouragement I might still be circling in the eddy, wondering how or if I might ever find words to describe…. Thank you.