"El mundo, Lo ves, es mas feliz despues del terror de la tormenta. You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces – one that is sad with suffering and the other laughs. But it is the same face – laughing or weeping – as lightning illuminates the dark…” — Black Elk

In the epic story of creation, it is said that on the first day the Divine separated light from dark.

Such a beautiful image – but when you consider that the sun, moon and stars were not yet created until the fourth day – then which light was being referenced?

Of course many scholars, thinkers and dreamers pose that on the second day of creation the Divine light, the spiritual light, was separated from – chaos, evil, despair – shadow.

Shadow happens when we turn our back on the light.

Caos, evil and despair happen when we cannot face the light.

Some say that it takes courage to face the light.
It takes humility to stand in the sun.

Light fills all one’s senses. Light overflows.

I used to think, and sometimes I still do…that when you lie down under a tree and you see the light sparkling through the trees…than this sparkling light are truly little holes punched in our reality through which we can see the Divine…that this light is all that is real. This also applies, incidentally, to sparkly reflections on the water, dew on spider webs sparkling in the morning sun and lightning.

Pinpricks through our façade.

Through a pinhole camera we can glimpse the Divine — or a magpie collects sparkly things seeking to be closer to the magic.

Está este pensador contemporáneo…Abraham Joshua Heschel. Ha acuñado el término asombro radical para describir, Creo, esta forma de pensar que todo lo que nos rodea y más allá está lleno de magia.

“Nuestro objetivo debe ser vivir la vida en Asombro Radical... levantarnos por la mañana y mirar el mundo de una manera que no dé nada por sentado.. Todo es fenomenal; todo es increible; nunca trates la vida casualmente. Ser espiritual es estar asombrado”.

¿Es ambicioso nuestro interés por las estrellas, que son un desafío para explorar??
¿Es científico? ¿De qué están compuestos??
¿Es social? ¿Estamos solos en este universo??

O simplemente tal vez... estamos encantados y embelesados ​​ante la posibilidad de una nueva luz.