Day 58q: Awakening to it All … (06/11/2019)
“On any long walk, after inevitable periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body become disunited to the point that they seem to be completely different elements; as though my body were only a home within which my mind has been associated but is by no means bound. In such moments my consciousness overtakes the ordinary senses and I can see without the assistance of my eyes. In such moments I become one with it all, and the importance of physical desires and my immediate surroundings is fully submerged in a profound apprehension of — and appreciation for — values far more universal …
It is in such instants that I seem to be fully divorced from my body for unmeasurable periods, as though I were an ineffable awareness spreading out through space, over the entire earth and far into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to the far heavier human problems of the world. My body requires no attention. It’s neither warm nor cold nor hungry nor thirsty — neither tired nor worried nor fit nor hopeful.
It is in these times when I can ask: What am I – this body of substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or what am I — this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation?” ~ inspired by Charles Lindbergh
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