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| Daniel A. Stafford | 6/24/2000 4:15:35 AM 10/2/2020 7:40:35 AM | 714 |
The Ocean of Hearts
This is the essence of our existence in many ways. Our choices reflect down time like ripples in a
pond and take a long time to fade. If one could see a line of time as a flat surface, it would look like
a pond in a rainstorm with all the effects choices have causing waves and patterns all across the
surface. However, instead of just horizontally across the surface, it would be like a sphere of waves
spreading out in every direction and fading gradually over vast distances down the dimension of time.
Think you of a great, endless ocean, soft blue, with our actions the silvery crystal of a spreading
bubble that expands and mingles in with the bubbles caused by other souls as they make their way
through the great ocean. As the bubbles interreact with one another, they create rythms and
waveforms and patterns that affect the qualities of our surroundings, with tumultuous tempests and
gentle rockings at various times.
If I were to make someone happy today, and that person was on the verge of a choice whether or
not to turn in one direction, and my effect on them changed the direction they chose, the
remainder of their life and every life they touch is colored in the hue of that single moment in time....
It is so worth the time it takes in consideration to attempt to make the dimensions of life around us
ripple in the direction of happiness....and when that wave washes over the shore and returns back in
our direction, as in some small way or huge wash of change it must, and just perhaps our own
journey should be moved in a more kindly fashion.
In my mind's eye, I see kindness and cruelty as opposing frequencies of waves in the ebb and flow
of life. Sow kindness, and it will reverberate and grow more kindness. Sow cruelty and it will also
feed upon reverberation. Hopefully, more souls will choose kindness, and such waves will take
precedence in the ocean of hearts our world contains.
And now I shall rest my typing fingers.....and move on to poetry in my fashion. Hoping.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 06/24/2000
Author's Comments
This poem was a bubble expanded by the wave below, Daniel's well spoken quote on the power of choice in our lives. I thank you, sir, for your gift of inspiration. Often I find others spark my muse in ways I could not foresee. You could say you have caused a ripple in the great ocean in choosing your quote.
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