On Clarity

What is Clarity?

Is it not your reflection on the surface of water after its ripples have disappeared, as you begin to see the beauty of your face? Are they not light and water meeting each other through your eyes? When the water is calm, light passes through, and so is your beauty. Yet when there is no light, both water and you still exist but cannot be seen. And when there is no water, you can see everything with light but your beauty. And what can light and water be of use if you never exist?

Light is but an evidence of what you see. It illuminates what is true in every existent that is seen. Nothing can be said true if all of them are blanketed in darkness. Light is a blessing. Had God not created it foremost, creation would not be possible. Inasmuch as light is the force through which everything is created. That makes the water and you born from its intangible essence.

From the earth's bosom is water, the womb where all life forms are nurtured. It is the formless that sculpts the form. May it be in plants or animals or humans, every pulp and flesh has countless drops of water in it. In its purity, when water meets light, it becomes invisible until it transforms into giant clouds that drift to adorn the sky. And the perfect time comes as water returns, clouds shatter into droplets to nourish the vast earth where it came from. It flows into many streams and seeps into the ground and soon to fill the wellspring from which you drink and quench your thirst.

In you where both light and water flows, life becomes real. They create you solely to become their witness. Your eyes, when at times filled with tears not only of sorrow, but of joy, are wrought in splendor to contain both light and water. And so when your eyes are filled, your whole body rejoices in silence.

This immanent joy brings you to look into the truth that you are. It is when your own sight looks upon the water that nourishes you, so light reveals your nature. It sends all of you to this reflection, where beauty is born for the first time. Every one of you coalesces into unspeakable union, when no more can one be distinct from the other. Your eyes perceive what is light and water; their radiance and calmness reflect you as you are. They both become you and you become them. In this merging of existence, there can be no separation among you, lest all of you will be worthless.

For you cannot experience Clarity if any one of you is missing.




for Claire