One of the most important things that I wish to convey through my work is the connection to everything and all that is around us. When we are truly whole, we experience the sense that we are part of an evolutionary process of love, expressed through greater potential, and complexity. Wholeness is happening NOW and ALL AROUND US within every molecule, cell, organ, human being, family, culture, country, world, solar system, galaxy and beyond. Why is this sense of aliveness that surrounds us so hard to experience?

Imagine this conversation: “Hi I’m Joe, Joe Molecule” He says to the cell where he resides, “Hey, you cell guys are so clueless. What’s really going on is here at the atomic level. Without me and my sub buds, you are nothing!”

Cell, responds, “What?! You gotta be kidding me. You molecules are lowly simpletons. Not at all like us highly evolved cell types.”

Then, all of the organs that make up the body jump into the debate, “ You Cells are irrelevant! One tiny cell provides no real benefit. Can you tell me one real function you play in keeping this body alive? Being an organ is where it’s at.”

“Yes”, declares the brain. “I agree, but some organs, the brain in particular, are far superior to any of the other, lesser organs. Brains control everything.”

“Wow, I guess you are right. I am just a lowly molecule,” sighs Joe.

It is ridiculous to imagine this conversation and we can clearly see that every molecule, cell and organ are vital to the function of the body. We can identify with the human body and its massive collection of cells and organs that occupy it. We think we are the separate person that lives in this body. Yet, as individuals, we are part of the whole of life. We are vital to its function. We have an important role to play and can never be truly fulfilled until we begin to express our unique self as part of the greater force, the whole of life.

Our ego attempts to convince us we are separate from the whole of life. We convince ourselves that we are “just an individual” or that we are better than others not as special as some. This kind of thinking cuts us off from the connection and the aliveness of the whole.

Bottom line is this: Everything is both whole AND a part of something greater. With every evolutionary leap, there is an increase in complexity and potential, an increase of consciousness. It is just like the molecule that becomes a cell that divides until it becomes a person. The evolutionary leap we human beings have been gifted is the capacity for self-awareness and the ability to choose our behavior according to values. Every time we choose to use this self-awareness and respond from our essence, we transcend our ego. We expand and become more complex and more self-aware. With this increase in consciousness comes the realization that we are already whole AND part of the whole of life.

As surely as Joe is whole yet also a part of the cell in your body where he resides, YOU are a cell in the body of God!