I often use analogies when trying to understand new concepts. It’s always been something that’s helped me wrap my brain around the unfamiliar, and the truth of who I am, really who we all are, is one of the concepts I have struggled the most with. It’s been the process of my life.
There is a part of me that is driven to do more than understand this concept on an intellectual level. I want to know this truth in every fiber of my being because it is soul altering and because knowing is different; it goes beyond understanding and perception. It just is. I don’t ever question whether the moon will go through its cycles or whether the sun will rise and set each day. They just do. This I know.
So the way that I envision this concept (or this truth), in my head, the way that helps me most make sense of it all, is that the part of me that is here now, the physical part of me that is typing this very sentence, would be equivalent to a pinky toe. This pinky toe is completely unaware that it that it has four other toes as neighbors or that it is even connected to a foot. Never mind it being aware of it's connection to the rest of the body.
It’s like the pinky toe fell asleep and completely forgot that it was more than a pinky; that it was part of this bigger, magnificent, collective, that made up the whole. Although the pinky toe may continue to sleep unaware, the rest of the body is completely aware of this toe and is patiently waiting to be acknowledged so that they get on with the business of being complete, being One.
I think of myself (really all of us) as the pinky toe that fell asleep, except this little toe is now waking up and realizing that it is more. I am more and we are more. I am an entity much larger and much more divine than this body can contain. I am a part of the whole that contains us ALL and the coolest part is that it just is, like moon cycles and sunsets. We are all much more than just a toe, much more than our bodies and intrinsically connected by Love, a swirling energy at the core of everyone, made up of everything, untouched, glowing hot and bright and unable to be extinguished… timeless, untouchable, unchangeable, forever Love
