Happy Easter (Might you call this Identity, Risen Life?)

There is in (the human person) an urge, an aspiration to know the source of all knowledge, and by knowing this all becomes known. This aspiration from without meets an inspiration from within. This meeting of the two forms the “space” where the Divine dwells. By becoming conscious of this aspiration, we reach the Divine Mystery. Delving into ourselves we find the presence of this Mystery in our dynamism towards it.

              ~ Raimon Panikkar~

 

Identity

 

I am your deepest identity.

Your breath is gift.

Everything that is conspires

to respire in you.

Breathe in and the trees and seas are there.

Breathe out and you return to them,

to me, who is spirit and life,

in whom every thing lives

and moves and has its being.

 

I am your deepest identity.

Invisible light reveals you—

your radiant form in my gift

of embodiment, neither one nor two,

united in mysterious relation

of dark with light.

Your light shines in dark,

the unseen, seen in you.

 

I am your deepest identity.

From whence comes the longing

in you for love except through

my calling: Deep calling on deep

in the roar of waters?

And who names you, if not me—

your mother, your father,

your origin and source?

 

I am your deepest identity.

Breath ~ Light ~ Love.

I am all of you and more of you.

And when you shed the garment

in which I dress you,

there is no return, no after,

only what has always been,

will always be—

Love holding thee.

~April 4, 2021~ Diane Pendola