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because it carries within it new pouring beach sand on himself,
I like taking my two-year-old inspirations, new ideas, new etc.
son for walks to the beach, thoughts, and new things. But
or just around the forest it made sense. From his baby (babies
neighborhood. He loves the Once we got to the beach, after are adults dwelling in
white beach sand and wastes playing in the sand for like ten inexperienced bodies)
no time bathing himself in it, minutes, he wanted to go back perspective, he had no
leaving me all alert so he does home. As we started to leave, limitation of connection to the
not get sand in his eyes. He is he turned and said bye-bye various things his eyes could
not in a hurry to get anywhere water ..bye-bye trees ...bye-bye see, even if he had no name for
fast. He stops to pick a stone shell, even as we walked away. all the things he interacted with
from the ground, plucks a What that means to me is that or what to call the connection
leaf or leaves which he calls even though where we were between himself and them. But
“flower”, and picks a stick or standing was a destination for this is the truth about living or
something else. And a simple me as a mature person, to him life on earth. There is really no
five-minute walk to the beach it’s still part of the journey, and end just as there is nothing in a
from our place may end up not saying goodbye to the new straight line and neither is the
lasting twenty minutes or more. things he met on his journey beginning the beginning. The
It always fascinates me why he would mean not having paid reality of God or the Divine
or every baby you see does the attention to the fact that all also is not a static existence
same thing. The last time we things are connected, not as somewhere in the clouds with
went on a walk to the beach, a beginning or end, but as a lots of European-looking men
he was busy picking stones, journey...a part of a whole. with long white beards and
talking to the leaves, pulling sage-like faces seated around
at some grasses along the way, This little drama with my a throne. It’s a wholeness
and enjoying his connection son did impress deeply in my wrapped in many dimensions
with everything while I, on the mind the meaning of life, that of existence within existence.
other hand, was busy trying to is, the wholesome connection Which is why the invisible
make him focus on the walk between all things seen and essence of God is found in all
and get to the beach quickly. unseen. So, to me, there is a created things. This means that
Then it hit me. The journey is destination called a beach that when my two-year-old son
the walk, not the destination. we were journeying to but to takes his time to touch, speak
him, the walk was the journey to, and interact with created
The fact remains that, and everything he needed to things on his walk to the beach,
technically speaking, the learn within that time frame which is another created thing,
destination or the place called of walking, he did so through he is actually having a “Whole”
“there” will always remain the interaction which he made conversation and interaction
the same but the journey to by speaking to the trees and with the Divine. And when
“there” is never the same leaves, picking up stones and he says bye-bye to everything
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