Whispers of Becoming

“How can wetness leave water?”

Rumi outlines this phrase as a metaphysical analogy. Wetness is water’s very essence. The two are inseparable and interconnected. Just like how wetness can not be separate from water, so too with the human soul and God.

How can water be separate from the ocean? How can light leave the sun?

The Bible states that the “Kingdom of God is within you” in the Gospel of Luke, which parallels to how each of us is made in “God’s image”. In Hindu Philosophy, especially within the Vedantic traditions, the greeting “Namaste” means “I honour the divine in you”.

When a baby is born into this world, they are intrinsically valuable. Most of what babies do is look cute, eat, cry and sleep. They do not have to get up and go to work or do household chores. They are excluded from doing every adult responsibility. But as time drifts by and we grow older, our experiences as a child slowly and surely mould our thoughts, beliefs and perspectives. Sometimes to the point, where we begin to feel like we are lesser than we actually are.

What Rumi sincerely wants to say when he writes those words is this:

You are searching outside for what you already are. You are love. You are peace. You are a rare, beautiful, intelligent being. Look within yourself and you shall see you are the whole universe. If an alien asked you who you were, you would not be able to echo your own name without summoning the stars and galaxies. Your name points to a physical body, then to a country, which is a part of Earth. And Earth is part of the Milky Way Galaxy, and so forth. The universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old and we are literally made of stardust.

The matter that composes us has wandered the cosmos for billion of years, travelling through the vastness of space until it found, for a moment, this form of you.

Love

Wendy