Beginning
We’re going to journey back nearly 14 billion years to imagine the beginning of our
Universe.
It is black. Not the transparent black clarity of a night sky tinged by stars. Nor the blackness
of squid ink, black yet with a hint of blue. But an utter and complete blackness.
Not an empty void but replete with everything and the potentiality of what might come. Not
a black hole, but the black whole.
It is minute; tiny almost beyond comprehension. Its wholeness at its first moment is as small
compared to your body as you are to the vastness of what it has since grown into over its
13.8 billion-year-long evolutionary journey.
It is hot. One hundred trillion trillion times as hot as the interiors of its stars will be billions
of years in its future.
It is simple; though only as simple as it can be to gift an eventual abundance of planets,
plants, and people.
Pause for a few moments – or minutes – close your eyes and invite your inner awareness to
wonder at its visionary magnificence.
Ask yourself how could the infinite and eternal mind of the Cosmos dream the perfection of
such a thought?
And ask yourself - Why?
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Big Breath and Little Breaths
Everything breathes. People breathe, plants breathe, planets breathe – our whole Universe
breathes.
Our Universe began to breathe nearly fourteen billion years ago, not in the implied chaos of
a big bang – but as the first moment of an exquisitely fine-tuned, ordered and ongoing Big
Breath.
As space has expanded ever since and universal time flowed from past to the current
moment of the present and still to unfold into the future, the Big Breath of our living and
loving Universe has breathed planets and plants and people into being.
Please make yourself comfortable, able to breathe easily and deeply.
When you settle, become aware of your own ‘little’ breaths.
For a few minutes:
As you breathe in, sense that the vastness of the Big Breath of our living and loving Universe
is gently breathing into and through you and sense its energy flowing though and nurturing
you - and then as you breathe out, add your breath and your own loving intentions into the
world.
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