Ordinary Miracles

I bumped into a friend the other week and we had one of those snatched chats that happen during those in-between moments when we are hurrying to someplace else. The nub of the conversation was that, often, our mental busyness gets in the way of our business.

My friend encounters this a lot in her line of work. She helps mothers to breastfeed with more ease and sees how easily they can get caught in thought, becoming fraught when feeding is uncomfortable due to a poorly latched on babe. Fortunately, she has the wisdom to know that babies are born knowing. Babies have an innate capacity to breastfeed – as do mothers –  and are likely to latch on with greater ease when their mother has less on her mind (or her ear on the telephone!).

Every single one of us is born knowing, infused as we are with the universal intelligence that is gifted to all living things. It boggles my tiny mind to glimpse the power of the Principle of Mind – this all encompassing, invisible, untouchable, unchangeable life force which animates us and propels us into being. This formless energy is the foundation of all creation.

From this infinite creative potential, my children grew themselves. Fertilised cells that fell into the shape and form of human beings, swelling into tadpoles the size of a sesame seed (with the start of a heart and nervous system) before I even had an inkling of their stirrings in the darkness.

We are all part of the intelligent unfolding of life:

seeds know how to grow into trees which bear fruit…

bees know how to drink honey-making nectar…

flowers know how to open their petals and bloom…

Such is the ordinary miracle of Mind.

…Mind is the intelligence of the universe, or the creative power of nature. Mind is the sunrise and the sunset and the night stars and the endless sky. Like a beautiful flower or a giant tree, you are a part of Mind…

Ami Chen Mills- Naim, The Spark Inside (page 21)