Of all the numberless flowers in this world, not one of them has a name. Their beauty, form, and function, their fragrance and color—these exist apart from whatever word you call a flower by and belong fully to the flower in a way that its name can never do. In just this way, that which you truly are—what you feel and most deeply desire—exists within you and belongs to you separately from the words and thoughts that accompany them.
You seek for truth in the world that lies all about you, but you stand at the center of that truth in who and what you are. Every person is complete and lacking nothing. For you are a beloved and a lover. You belong to life eternally and wholly to everything that is.
Naturally, you will find it difficult to rest in this knowledge. The world tells you that you must wrestle with circumstances and events in order to become who you yearn to be. But that yearning can only be satisfied by the deep knowledge that, just by being alive, you are who and where you need to be.
With this confidence, you can go anywhere and do anything. You can achieve whatever is needed to embrace love and fulfill your destiny in the world. With this inner truth you will never be lost. You need not fear death. And you can provide wisdom and comfort to those in need. There is nothing to reach for and nothing to attain but the knowledge of your own heart and the fulfillment of its deepest desires.
No words will guide you there. Whatever paths the world gives you to follow are false and ill-suited if they promise some final point of arrival. The journey you are on from the beginningless past to an endless future unfolds one step at a time. So do not falter, and have no fear. For I am with you and within you. Your body and My body are of one body with the world.
[art: Sarah Jarrett]