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A GRAIN OF SAND

The simplicities and complexities of our thoughts of the universe can be best visualized in the grains of sand on a beach. The grains of sand are as infinite as the complexities that we create. The complexities of questions and doubts, that only compound themselves, ultimately taking us further from the truth, the truth of a simple grain of sand. The extent of our theories or faiths are but handfuls of sand that slowly and surely slips through our grasp. Is it best in searching for the truth, to study the complexities of our thoughts, grasping at handfuls of beliefs; or perhaps it is better to examine the simplicity of a single grain of sand? Is it possible to behold a single grain of truth, to grasp the truth of a single simple grain of sand?

Lets try!
Is it not true that a single grain of sand although some dark some light, some big some small, some look like rock, and others like pieces of shell; or wood; are truly equal to all the other grains of sand? Is not a grain of sand a grain of sand, regardless of our measure? Do they not all unite equally and in oneness, to make sand? Do the grains of sand, unite equally to make the beach? So then the equality or unity of grains of sand unite to make the beach, which unites to make the shore, which unites equally the land and the sea? And the land and sea equally unite and make up the planet we call Earth? So then the grains of nature, some light some dark, some big some small, regardless of our uncertainties and doubts, regardless of measured differences, regardless of our complexities and beliefs, make up the true unity or equality or oneness of everything, the universe.

Can the simple truth of the equality of a grain of sand, unite the universe? Is a single grain of truth equal to the universe of truth? Is that single grain of truth the beauty and wisdom of it all? Is a grain of truth all we need to make the universe one? Is equality the grain of truth that will set the universe free? Is a grain of sand and myself equal, united, and one? Is the truth more simple than thought?

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