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We all have heard the statement that,

if we walk a mile in someone’s moccasins,

we become more understanding of that person.

Actually, if we continue that walk for yet another mile,

something else happens, something even more notable:

We become truly compassionate, heartfully empathic

and genuinely loving toward that person.

Hmm, this is getting interesting. Let’s keep going.

Let’s follow the breadcrumbs of this journey even further.

Let’s picture ourselves now walking many, many miles

in those same moccasins.

What happens then?

We actually experience a compelling unity with that person.

We find our personal boundaries disappearing,

as we merge with, then completely unify with, that person.

Are you ready for the next set of bread crumbs? Here it is:

Ultimately, if we walk long enough in those moccasins,

We even become that person.

As the saying goes, “… and the two become one!”

If you and I sit in the middle of anything long enough,

we begin to merge with it, melt into it, become one with it.

Yes, ultimately, in truth, we actually become it.

Siddhartha Gautama, for example, contemplated pure light

under the Bodhi tree for many years.

Ultimately, he became the light.

As a result, we call him the Buddha:

the enlightened one.

Jesus, for example, so immersed himself in pure love

that he ultimately embodied it within himself.

He actually became pure love.

We call him the Christ: the anointed one.

Lao Tzu, as another example, so immersed himself

in the essence and pure truth of creation

that he uncovered this wisdom: “To be is to do.”

As a result, he entered a unique state of ‘being.’

Indeed, he became being itself.

He called this essence, this state of being: the Tao.

We call him Lao Tzu: Old Master.

You and I have walked a lot of miles in human moccasins.

What have we discovered about the essence of our human nature?

While sitting under the tree of our humanness over time,

what hidden truths can we, what do we, uncover?

In fact, what do we ultimately become?

Let’s start our human journey with our very own body.

If we enter into a deeply personal relationship with this body,

we discover that everything about it is energy.

Yes, our seemingly physical body is 99.999% energy—

pure energy, powerful energy, amazing energy.

And if we experience this bodily energy over time,

we begin to bond with it, blend with it become one with it

and actually become it. And it becomes us.

We now experience ourselves as this energy.

Indeed, we are energy!

And what about our human mind?

if we dive deeply into the wonder of our human mind

and sit in the shade of its remarkable gifts long enough,

we begin to fall into the waiting lap of something much bigger:

pure consciousness itself—

the consciousness of collective humanity, of pure light,

of infinity itself and, ultimately, of the quantum source.

Step by step, we melt into this expansive consciousness,

we look at everything through its spacious eyes,

our smaller mind merges with its bigger vision,

and we ultimately become pure consciousness.

To review, the essence of our human-ness—

at this point in our moccasin-centered adventure, at least—

is pure energy and unlimited consciousness.

Let’s follow the bread crumbs to the next step in our journey.

Let’s sit under the waiting tree of pure energy.

What happens within us if we become intimate friends with our energy,

if we spend sacred time with it, if we merge with it?

For most of us, something powerful and magnificent occurs:

Love comes quickly to the fore. The energy of love comes alive.

The power of love starts becoming our dominant energy.

The healing, energizing nature of love becomes our strength.

I believe that we can safely say:

The essence of energy is pure love.

And, as we embrace it, we become that love.

Ultimately, we are love itself.

Do you know what happens if we raise the vibrational energy of love?

It starts to look and feel like clear, radiant light.

Just like ice becomes water, then water becomes steam,

our energy of pure love actually becomes pure light.

So, as we now start walking in the moccasins of love,

embracing the love in our heart and feeling love everywhere,

that love actually raises its vibrational frequency within us.

Shortly, we experience it as a personalized light.

We feel that light in our body, energy field and consciousness.

As time marches on, we actually identify with this light.

We become it, experiencing ourselves as ‘beings of light.’

To re-cap once again at this point in our journey:

The essence of our humanness is pure energy.

The essence of our energy is pure love.

The essence of our love is pure light.

You and I are humanly energized, love-filled beings of pure light.

Shall we continue further in our adventuresome moccasins?

Let’s walk together in pure light and see what might happen.

Imagine yourself melting into your light.

Imagine that light so filling every nook and cranny of you

that it takes over your human form completely.

Now, imagine yourself penetrating the invisible center of that light.

What happens at that precious moment of singularity?

Pure light raises its vibratory nature

and disappears into a completely different realm:

the formless realm of pure being.

Yes, your light dissolves into a presence of being, of essence.

Expressed more personally, you become being itself.

Who are you now? Let’s re-cap anew:

The essence of our humanness is pure energy.

The essence of our energy is love.

The essence of our love is pure light.

The essence of our light is pure being.

Indeed, you and I are pure beings

dressed in clothes of light,

held in the embrace of love,

propelled by the force of energy

and nurtured by the magic of consciousness.

Let’s walk a final mile in our by-now well-worn moccasins.

Let’s immerse ourselves in our new identity of ‘being-ness,’

discover its essence and see what appears.

To help, picture yourself as this invisible, formless ‘being.’

Allow your pure being-ness to consume you totally,

and, in doing so, to become now completely invisible,

actually shrinking magically into its pre-created non-form:

That of non-being! Of nothingness! Of emptiness!

Quantum Void!

Yes, the essence of ‘being’—your, my and everyone’s being—

is pure non-being.’ Absolute nothingness.

The deepest truth about you and me, then, is this:

We are pure emptiness expressed as being-ness—

pure beings manifesting as light,

pure light expressing as love,

pure love taking the form of energy,

powerful energy appearing as tangible bodies,

with all of the above available to us in our consciousness.

I’ve often wondered: Could it be that the secret

to discovering these bigger truths about ourselves,

to entering into these amazing states of consciousness,

and to claiming them as the truth of who we are,

lies in our willingness to walk daily in their moccasins?

Could it be that, if you and I simply decided

to live in our bodies long enough to become its powerful energy,

to unite with our hearts long enough to become pure love,

to get lost in love long enough to become infinite light,

to immerse ourselves in light long enough to become being,

and to be dissolved in being long enough to become non-being,

we might, over time, actually arrive at our fullest identity?

Yes, our fullest identity, our awareness of who we truly are:

that we are non-beings, pure beings, light beings, love beings,

energy-filled beings, physical beings and conscious beings—

all wrapped up into a singular and unique bundle

of wonder, fascination, beauty and dynamism!

What a miracle we are! What awesome creations!

What a magical blend of realities are present

in us, as us, through us!

I thank you for allowing me to walk with you

in these multi-dimensional moccasins today.

I’d like to close with this invitation:

that we walk this path of blended identities together,

in spirit, every day—donning the same moccasins,

walking the same sacred ‘tour of identities,’

drinking in the same wondrous elements of expansive ‘self,’

and becoming each and every one of them—

one step at a time!

Quantum Source ... Quantum World ... Quantum Void ... Quantum You!