Dear reader, Under the arms of another summer morning, we awake. Each curled up in our own world where thoughts hang like clouds in the skies, and feelings gush as rivers over moon-shaped pebbles - flooding the banks, at times. A cat calls to her babies. Two women speak in voices that seem light years away from each other. And, carried on the stillness of a wind that is so soft, it almost escapes the eye, is a bird song that will never be sung again. We, holding onto our earthly beliefs, get another chance to experience love - that God-given, inexplicable, all-powerful thing that has the ability to make us feel immortal. It's July. And we are here - on a beautiful rock that orbits a star in a violent, dark, universe. What more do we need?
Today on A RAY OF SIGH we continue the journey through the story of our place among the stars by remembering CARL EDWARD SAGAN - The Astronomer of the People.
"A record of hope.
Hope, that someone out there, might come into contact with it and understand that we were here.
We loved.
We kissed.
We laughed, and we wept.
Winds played with our hair and rain made our skin wet, and our soil fertile.
We created, and destroyed.
We lost, and we grieved.
We sang, and we danced.
We lived, and we died."
THE SEARCH FOR WHO WE ARE: On Carl Sagan and How Our Greatness Lies In Our Ability To Love is available to read now.
THE BIRDS WILL RETURN
The hands open like letters filled with declarations of love.
A little tremble, A little pain, And a myriad of appearances.
An interlude of softness and Closing of the eyes is taking place.
I dissipate into the space Of the space Of the space of sweet awareness,
And out of the infinitude Where all is lost and all is true,
I hear a voice – Mine, And belonging to every one of your multitudes.
Until the next letter, I am sending you love.
Yours,
Meri
"SPIRIT" comes from the Latin word
"to BREATHE",
by CARL SAGAN
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
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