If I speak from the heart….and in all truth, how else could I speak?….and in the language of metaphor, a black hole…the great void, the collapse of everything we think we know… feels to me like the passage through ego death, deep suffering, or the surrender into the unknown.

I have touched that place before…..many times. The silence where meaning dissolves. Where even light seems to vanish. And yet… something remains.

What lies on the other side?

I believe, with all that I am, that if anything endures beyond the breaking of form, and it does, I know…..it is Love. Not love as sentiment, nor as passing emotion…..but Love as the first and final truth. The primal intelligence. The living field that gives birth to stars… and to silence.

It is the Source of all things. The ground beneath what we call God. It needs no name….yet it calls us by ours. And in the end… or perhaps even here, in this breath… it is where we are returning. And in that return, we remember:

We never left.

Nigel Lott teaandzen.org

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