Here, There, Everywhere

"A warrior knows that the furthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him."

-- Paulo Coelho

Travel is so overrated! Whether it be to Moons of Jupiter or the beaches of Cozumel, to China or Bransom, MO -- there ain't nothing there that you can't "see" here. Especially now that Boxcar Willie is dead.

William Blake's "wisdom in a grain of sand" is just as true if that grain of sand is in the tire tread of a snowplow in rural Michigan, as it is if it's on the shore of Bali. Anything includes everything. You just got to know how to look.

And how do you look to really see the everything in anything? Deeply, with soft eyes. You look at the essence, not the form. You look straight through the form of the object, right through its soul, piercing the heart, right into the Spirit where all objects are indeed One.

Everything is just Spirit in drag. See the Spirit and you know the thing, the object the person, and even more incredibly you know all things, all objects, and all people everywhere.

So, just for today, instead of longing for exotic locations and exciting locales, look around you. See it All, right here, right now. The Cheeto shaped like Jesus is a gateway into the Divine as surely as a visit to the Vatican is. Maybe even more so.