Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
~Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

I wonder, does inward restfulness equate to inner peace? That's how I look at it, and it's truly what I'm striving for. Every living thing, from children to plants, needs *some* peace and quiet in order to grow to its full potential, and I enjoyed seeing this truth applied to the soul.

In the beginning, the air and land were not separate, nor were masculine and feminine split apart. All was one, like an egg, full of potential and without limits. But slowly earth, being heavier, settled out of heaven. At first it floated about on the air, like a fish swimming near the surface of the water, but finally it formed entirely and sank beneath the heavens.
~Nihongi, Japanese Scriptures

Courtesy of GrannyMoon's Morning Feast

I really like this creationist story! I recently read a discussion about the egg, and how the yolk symbolizes the sun, also seen as God, and the white resembles the light of the moon, or the Goddess. I like this visual as well, with the Earth as the yolk surrounded by the white of the heavens. The yolk is full of (pregnant with) "the stuff of life" (literally, as the embryo, as well as figuratively), which fits in neatly with Earth imagery (as being alive, and teeming with life), and particularly with Gaia as the Goddess (the Earth as her pregnant womb). The white part would then be God, or the Heavens, in the style of Mother Earth, Father Sky.

I also really enjoy the idea of the egg representing the One, or All, the combination and joining of the God & Goddess as a single unit. Sometimes it is difficult for me to envision them as Both, as well as separate, and this fits very neatly together in my mind. It's a simple image, yet displays the idea perfectly.

Thought for the day:

Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow.

Wow! This is definitely one for me to remember. I have a tendency to worry about things that I have no control over, or might not happen anyway. I've really been trying to keep a positive outlook, and just have faith that everything works out exactly like it is meant to. Every time something that appears "bad" happens, it turns out to be a major positive turning point in my life. You would think I would learn this lesson one of these days.

If there must be trouble let it be in my day,
that my child my have peace.
~ Thomas Paine

From Remember the Blood of Heroes...