Arise

A 21-day meditation challenge from the Chopra Center includes a fractal mandala video.  Here is the link: https://vimeo.com/26981276 Like me, you might want to turn off the sound, the better to focus on the image.  Put on your own music, if you wish! Imagine the image as a 3-dimensional hologram.  It seems, to me, an apt model of a universe constantly in flux, yet always in balance.  To a pinpoint on one of these arcs, the path seems random.  From a wholistic vantage point, everything is in harmony. As individual pinpoints, sometimes we are carried up, sometimes down.  We ascend and descend, appear, disappear, and reappear in a great, 3-dimensional dance.  From this, I also have come to view transitions in life as turns of a kaleidoscope.  All the elements go tumbling into disarray, but ultimately resolve into a new and balanced pattern. 

When you've been living entirely in the dark, the wavering light of one candle  is a miracle so gratifying, the idea of a Sun might be too much to conceive. One might stop just at the candle. One might stop just at the Sun. The idea of abiding, steadfast light from Within could be so extraordinary, one might never recognize it.