Sand Meditation

The Sand Has Much to Teach Us

First: it will cling to you. Accept this. Walk by the sea or rest in its arms, and you’ll carry it home.

The sand reshapes itself endlessly to meet the movement of water.

It is of earth, and yet becomes fluid like the sea.

It flows, it gathers, it adapts.

Some grains shift easily. Others cling, coarse and sticky, refusing to let go.

The sand becomes beach or dune, depending on what the waves choose to return or take away.

Sand is shaped by its surroundings and its exposure to the elements — just like us.

But what if you are not separate from this process?

What if you, too, are of the earth and the sea, of the air and the sacred fire —

the fire that breaks things down into sand again?

The beach is a meeting place: earth and sea, time and timelessness, stillness and movement.

You are sand, and you are part of this rhythm.

You can let go and gather. Dissolve and become.

You have already flowed through so much —

and you can do so again, with more awareness, more grace, more acceptance.

Because change is coming. Always. Whether you like it or not.

But you are part of the whole. And you can meet the waves as sand does —

with the quiet wisdom of something that was never meant to stay the same.

Let the self dissolve into the non-self of the ocean sand.

Let yourself be part of it, not apart from it.

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