Kami McBride – Living Awareness Institute.Amit Goswami – The Center for Quantum Activism.But whatever it might be for you, it is more important to swim through the days and honor the gill inside you than to figure out how it all works. So what is your gill? For me, it is my heart, and love becomes the unseeable trail I leave behind. Rather, all our efforts must go into learning the secret of the gill, the secret of transforming what we go through into air. We cannot stop the flow of experience or the need to take it in. Nothing else matters, and just like fish we must keep swimming to stay alive. It means turning pain into wonder, heartache into joy. The question is, What in us is our gill? Our heart, our mind, our spirit, a mix of all three? Whatever it is, like the smallest fish, we must turn water into air in order to live, which for us means turning our experience into something that can sustain us.

Though there are biological details that explain the mechanics of this, it is, in essence, a mystery. Yet in its tiny, efficient gill lives the mystery of how to live as a spirit on Earth.Īs we all know, by swimming, the smallest fish takes in water, and its gill turns that water into the air by which it lives. I’ve been a fish: in search of bottom when I’ve surfaced, in search of surface when I’ve bottomed, and the ribbon of God’s sea passing through my gills is what I’ve felt and thought and spoken.Ī simple fish nosing its way along the bottom is in itself a profound teacher, and like the deepest teachers, it doesn’t even know it is teaching.

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