That Golden Thread
Another revelation of sorts while working out...

I passed the threshold into euphoria again and was this time rewarded with images of incredible beauty: my archetype raising the mists, the bridge under a full moon, masques dancing, thunderclouds, lightning, daybreak, the opening of a flower, cycles speeding up, pulsing through the city, a superhighway...

and then the mirage was broken by the simple movement of the leaves of a tree in the sunlight right outside my window... but it drew me right back in deeper and the superhighway was pulses of energy along the branches of the tree from the leaves and their stems into the trunk and down into the very center of the earth. I saw the energy flow from the earth into every other being and back into the tree... the superhighway, blinding pulses of brilliance inside every living thing, everything the same energy, the same life, the same chaos and purity. We are the superhighway inside of something much greater, just as the light flows through us.

In closing, I leave you with this thought...

"The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth,
the more real and truthful they become.
Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air,
to soar into the height, take leave of the earth and his earthly being
and become only half real- his movements as free as they are insignificant.
What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"

Milan Kundera- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Knowing it will remove you from your friends, your established life... will you seek enlightenment? Is freedom worth the price?