Out of the Silence: After the Crash

by Eduardo Strauch Urioste

I watched it from my human smallness. I was no more than a fleeting, insignificant being before its thousands of millennia, so tiny in the face of its majestic presence.

My spirit expanded into a reality without limits and came back to me, enriched with a knowledge that was not intellectual. Not only did I feel part of the universe, but I seemed able to embrace it and live its fullness in every breath.

Nobody thought that they were doing anything extraordinary. Helping others was a natural act, one that wasn’t weighed or analyzed and one that arose spontaneously.

But nature is neither good nor bad, it simply is. So perhaps its only indisputable quality is its magnificence.

The landscape becomes complete with what arises in the human soul that contemplates it. We are no longer insignificant beings facing the void as long as our emotions make us participants in that immensity.

There is a freedom in knowing that your character has been tested to its limit, and you have emerged victorious.