I believe that within each of us lies the essence of the universe. I am the sinner, the saint, the depraved and the righteous. I am everything that is good and holy; Buddha Nature. I am also ignorance, the reactive mind; the Shadow.

Today I love and accept. Tomorrow I judge and expect. I live in a sea of change; sometimes floating in calm serenity, sometimes clinging, gasping, drowning through the storms of my life.

Most importantly, (I have come to believe) I am the Observer, pure consciousness...connected forever to the Unified Field, to Brahman, to God...and so are you.

Nothing of this is ever lost. The whole process etches its way onto our faces. Look closely in the mirror (or at a portrait) and there you'll see it, clear as day...

...the map of life. -M. 2007