The joke goes, “A good analogy is hard as… (Grasping
hands at air)…as…
The humor lies in the mental leap of irony...with
a dash of absurdity to sweeten it. Yet, as analogies goes there is one that
serves my purpose for today. It is the
one used by Neale Donald Walsh in one of his inspired books. I borrow it for my purposes but I wanted to
give credit to where I picked it up years ago.
From
a point of view, the concept goes, there exist the universal consciousness; the
divine intelligence; as in all things. Then
apply that to using a candle as an individual conscious being. So then a
representation of the entire collective presence of billions of these
individual candles so close to one another that it was visible as a huge blinding
light, as massive as a sun. Now the
beauty of this analogy is the rest of the story, and that would be where the
individual consciousness had a deep desire to know it’s own brilliance; but
couldn’t tell due to being surrounded by so much light.
So it was permitted to venture away from the
great abundance into the darkness so it could see the limits of its
affect. In that moment of freedom the
seed for longing to be reunited with the whole was also planted. It was the
continuation of the dualistic understanding of all there is in the physical
universe, as well as the unmanifested qualities (pretty much everything else).
So we were given both the delight and the desires that accompany liberty;
thriving in our exploration and discovery, while ever thirsting for reunion and
connection to our home.
The
purely desirable proposition that we exist as both an individual and part of a
greater totality could not be better exemplified by such a powerful analogy
as this.
If one were to choose to believe in such a
relationship.
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