I don’t think there is much difference between life and death. The difference is as a leaf suspended in a flowing stream. The stream has movement and force, power. The leaf, as it is carried along in the stream, like the palm of your hand, can be palm down or palm up—same leaf, same hand; only, at one moment in time the leaf has one side up and one side down. There is no difference in the up or down. The moment of turning, which we call death or birth, from one to the other is the difference, and it is only a second in time—a moment of dynamic transition—not a static state at all.
And we flow in this stream of life that is the energy of God.
—from the book Francis and the San Damiano Cross: Meditations on Spiritual Transformation
by Susan Saint Sing, PhD
