3:34pm June 1, 2014

The real you

My arms tell me that my surroundings are alive. They flit and flap and flicker in response to the smallest sounds and motions in the world around me. My surroundings tell me I am alive. My arms tell me my surroundings are alive. They talk to each other. They are alive together.

I can feel a warmth spread from my waist all the way to my toes, that tells me my body is a part of the world, and the world is a part of my body. My legs are like the roots in the redwood soil. My face is like the redwood sorrel. My hair is like the moss. The light brings life, I can feel life pour through me from my hair all the way down to my feet. The grooves on my hands are the grooves in the bark and they will always be bark-hands.

Remember you are part of everything.

Remember your roots in the ground.

Remember that the sun feeds you.

Remember that your body is more than a vessel for your thoughts. Your movements connect you to everything around you. The wind blows you, but you also move yourself. Both are important.

You can find love in your roots, you can find love in the soil, you can find love in the sky, you can find love in the light, you can find love in yourself. It’s there wherever you can find it.

And your body will remind you of that love, even if your mind is stuck somewhere impenetrably complex and wordy and confused.

And even as your mind spirals up and up and up, your body will hold you down and tell you who you are. And the world will tell you who you are. And you and the world will embrace and find love.

You will stand on the most solid ground you have ever seen, and the solidity will fill your body. And the fire will fill your body with passion. And the air will fill your mind with understanding. And the water will fill your body with deep insight. And the light will bring it all together. And you will be solid, you will be solid in a way that people take a step back realizing how solid you have become. And you will be, absolutely 100%, who you are meant to be. Solid. Free. Beautiful. Intense. Exactly right for the situation. Full of depth, full of passion, full of reality.

Even now, if you don’t feel like this, you are always real. This is who you are, under all the confusion. And it is unique to you, nothing can take it away from you. Nothing.