At 5:02 am, I lie awake in bed waiting for my 7:00 alarm to set my day into motion. I'm sure I could sleep right now if I weren't lying in such excitement. Today I work my last day of work before moving out of my apartment and into an adventure. Just me and this girl I am lying next to. Escaping like the sun, seceding from the world we all have come to think of as home, and returning to the home that we have long forgotten.
Tomorrow is that day. For today I seek to be absolutely and entirely present in every moment I find myself in. To love more beautifully than I have before, just as the sun paints a picture as it rounds off the horizon. So too does the sun disappear and leave the earth in darkness. So too does the sun return with magnificent, golden light to warm the cool earth. Never diminishing its light, never discriminating where the light should fall, but ever steadily moving along its path through the sky.
From earth's perspective the sun comes and goes, and those who first observed this pattern understood the sun as a dynamic sphere in the sky. With more understanding of the cosmos we learned that the sun had actually been the one motionless, stoic in its seemingly eternal meditation. This stillness is my soul, and the perception of motion is the perspective of all those on the outside, looking into my life. If you too are still, you will recognize stillness, but the one in motion will always perceive motion from those who are still.
Be still my soul, and may I see clearly all that is still, may I choose to sit in stillness, in peace, and in harmony with all that is still, peaceful and harmonious.
Namaste
