Everything that comes into existence comes into existence as a whole. The flower is contained within the seed. It only becomes what it already is.

We are born into this world as perfect and complete as the elegant rose. We are ever-blooming flowers, it seems, striving for more light so we can rise up to even greater heights, like a flower rooted in the heavens, and longing for more love so we can dig even deeper into the depth of mother earth and be nourished by the waters of life.

Light and Love.

Is that all the flower needs to burst forth from the earth, for the bird to spread its wings and soar to new heights, for the seeds of humanity to awaken into a sea of endless compassion that spreads from shore to shore?

If so, then let there be light, let there be Light! so I can be shine this radiant love!

All things strive towards the sun, the One great illuminator, the bringer of light and life, and the witness of the world. As the world turns, the sun rises to dispel all darkness and sets as darkness returns. The endless cycles of light and dark, birth and death, are permanent reminders that all things in life are impermanent, an ever-changing and ever-flowing flux of motion. We need only stay centered, as the wheel of life turns.

We welcome the sun, come, come, come, and when it goes, we wait in soulful abeyance and long for a midnight sun.

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have worshipped the sun as a solar deity, a god who bestows life and light to all creation. We remember Ra and Horus, the sun-gods in ancient Egypt, and Apollo the sun-god of ancient Greece. Savitr and Surya are personified as the sun-god in Hinduism, while Surya still remains the name of the sun-god in Hindu-Bali today. In Balinese religion, Brahmin priests call upon Surya, who is another form of Lord Siva, the great destroyer, to burn away all impurities and sins. The Balinese are vey conscious of the dual forces of light and dark, which they believe symbolize the eternal battle between good and evil. The supreme God in Balinese religion, Sang Hyang Widhi-Wasa, is also associated with agni, the god of fire, and seen with burning flames from his limbs. The Balinese cremation ceremonies mark a final symbolic way to return to the light.

The moth flies into the flame and perishes in the light.

Mystics describe this phenomenon as a symbolic act of spiritual love that takes the soul into a complete and total absorption with the light of the Divine.

Again, we arrive on the doorstep of light and love, begging to be let in.

The seeker of truth is a sun-worshipper.

A lover of light.

Are we not all truth-seekers and sun-worshippers? Just like the flower strives toward the sun, so too, we strive to behold the greatest light and bloom with the perfect fullness that is ever-present in each seed of life.

While everything that comes into existence comes into existence as a whole, what’s needed to see this perfect fullness is light, and what’s needed to be this perfect fullness is love.

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