Ruminating with Rumi
I see in you that which I AM, the one light that is the whole of the all. The whole of the all is consciousness in existence. There is no other than consciousness, and I AM is consciousness expressing existence. It is the one true nature of all.
You are that which I AM. I AM is the whole of the all. I AM includes all without exception. It is the nature of consciousness that nothing exists outside of consciousness. Consciousness has no boundaries. There can be no other than consciousness. There is only I AM in existence. I AM is consciousness-expressing. You are I AM. You are the expressing that is existence. You are the dancing that is the dance.
Consciousness is the emptiness that is nowhere. It is nothingness. From nothingness comes all. In both metaphysics and physics there is the idea that existence comes from nothing. Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao Te Ching says, in Chapter 25, that before the universe was born there was something empty, infinite, and eternal that is called the Tao, and the Tao is the mother of the universe. According to Jewish mysticism, as found in the Kabbalah, God created something from nothing by opening a space in itself to make room for its creation. God, in effect, created an empty space to make room for what was not God. A separation occurred by God contracting the infinite light to create a conceptual space for the universe. From that emptiness the universe was born. In his book, A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss, a noted theoretical physicist, explains how nothing becomes something in the quantum world when particles pop in and out of existence in space. He says that space is not empty. It is dark energy, which is the power that keeps the universe expanding instead of collapsing under gravitational pull. The instability of emptiness, or nothing, generates the existence of particles. Particles collect into forms which vary in size from electrons to galaxies to create the universe, or existence as you know it.
Your existence is nothing. It is meaningless. It has no permanence. Therefore, you must give it meaning, or live without purpose. Find meaning and purpose in the whole of the all. To follow your true nature in the world, live in unity with all, expressing loving-kindness with all. You are not a solitary figure in the openness of spacetime. Only in your own mind are you real as the me of the body. Know your true nature as I AM from within. Project your knowledge into daily life. From within you know the way.