"As Above, So Below"

If you wish to know the heavens, look to your own heart.

If you wish to know your own heart, look to the heavens.

When we get caught up in the drama of our struggles with each another, we all-too-easily forget how open and spacious and all-encompassing we are. We forget that we are enormously loving and generous and wonderful and tolerant and merciful and understanding and compassionate and effective and powerful and successful and creative.

In our heart-of-hearts, we ARE all these things. But in our struggles with one another when intense, conflicting feelings flood us; we shut down. Defending ourselves, we forget our wonderful grandeur and become so much smaller. We struggle and battle; we are defeated and laid waste. It’s very sad. It’s tragic.

But hey, wake up; don’t forget who you really are. Take a moment right now to remember. Your heart is a mirror of the heavens. It reflects all the enormous forces of the universe — all of nature’s beauty and strength. You have within you all that love and all that power. You are hugely loving and hugely powerful, you have enormous capacity to change things and transform them and make them better.

Those forces in the universe are in you as well. As above, so below.

Keep reminding yourself, so you don’t forget.