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Elsewhere, I have set out this quotation/affirmation: As the droplet is to the ocean,I am.As the lick of flame is to the fire,I am.As the sunbeam is to sunlight,I am.As the Great Spirit is,
I am
. Here is a visualisation to aid understanding:
(NOTE: This is you too, dear reader, so visualise each line carefully)
re. line 1
. Visualise a drop of water dropped into a glass of water; it is one with thewater but still exists in its own right.
re. line 2
. Visualise a fire and a lick of its flame; the lick is often separate from the firebut is still part of it. Without the fire it does not exist.
re. line 3
. Visualise sunlight and a sunbeam. The sunbeam exists only becausesomething has blocked out part of the ambient sunlight. Remove the block, and thesunbeam merges with the ambient sunlight. What appeared to be separate is now allone - yet the sunbeam still exists as it was.
re. line 4
. Visualise, therefore, the relationship of "I am" (you) to the Great Spirit whichis omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient - the Creative Force, God.
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andrewlondonbooks

We are part and parcel of the Supreme... the same, not in quantity, but in quality. Nicely said, Mr. Gardner!

reply02 / 07 / 2010
andrewlondonbooks

Oh, OK... then Ian it is! Thanks for the informality of your friendship!

02 / 08 / 2010
Ian Gardner

Hello Andrew, yes, although the "part" and "parcel" take some unraveling!! :-) :-) By the way, just Ian, please! :-)

02 / 08 / 2010
E_Gerald_Oberman

Ah more like the bio of all existence then eh? Beautiful, and true.

reply11 / 22 / 2009
Ian Gardner

Interestingly, Matthew, it was only some time after writing it that I realised that the water, fire and sunlight are arranged in order of ascending density or specific gravity. Spirit, of course, has no density as it is not of the phenomenal world.

11 / 24 / 2009
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