Nothing material lasts, nor provides lasting fulfillment.  When we stake our sense of self in the temporal forms of this world, we are tossed about in the sea of constant change – the interminable cycles of birth, growth, fulfillment, dissolution and death.

Human existence is hollow if not rooted in some ineffable awareness.  The vastness of our being cannot be contained within the confines of the human mind.  Eckhart Tolle says, “Your primary task is not to seek salvation by creating a better world, but to awaken out of identification with form.”

Wisdom tells me I am nothing.  I am not this name, not this body, not the struggles nor the successes that I encounter in this illusory world.

Love informs me that I am everything.  I am you and I am inseparable from all that arises in the universe.

Nothing and everything simultaneously.  It is together that they satiate the totality of our nature and provide the full story.

Spiritual maturity and sacred unity rests on being able to exist comfortably on the boundary between the transitory and the everlasting, form and nothingness, time and timelessness…