10. It might be
a meaningful coincidence
that turns your head
or a brief moment
of indescribable clarity
that gives you a glimpse
or a perception
of something other
than what you expected
you could see
that stops you.
14. Like home.
Only... closer.
The water exerts a great pull.
15.
16. Something within you knows,
though you cannot say
how it knows,
but it knows
that the great expanse of water
holds a missing something
of your being.
46. Or are you both
the droplet
and the sea
from beginning to end?
47. Do you fall into the water
only to be consumed
by the waves?
Do you
become
the great swell
--opening your eyes
from within its vast,
borderless body?
Pose these questions
to the sea,
and the sea says...
51. About the Author
Lisa Lindeman is a droplet who earned a BA in
psychology from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1999. She will earn her PhD in psychology
in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In her graduate research and personal writing, she
explores the relationship between conceptual thought
and emotion as well as the intersection between
consciousness and reality. She began meditating in
1993 following an accidental plunge into that sea of
awareness that permeates existence. She loves to
paint and dance. She lives in Oklahoma with her two
little droplets, Erik and Luke.
