The Eagle's Eye and The Tiger's Heart

We are meant to be free.  That's all there is to it.  We are meant to live and explore and see and rejoice and imagine and shatter illusions.  We are meant to be with others or spend some time alone. We are meant to eat the finest manna and breathe the freshest air.  We are meant to swim with dolphins and whales and understand what they are talking about.  What they are trying to tell us.

The sheer image of a tiger in a cage or an eagle with diminished wings--is it not enough to break a thousand hearts.  And mine is ready to be healed.  Can we not see the wings of the Eagle?  Can we not and feel the heart of the tiger.  I see them.  And I feel them because they are mine.  

I am looking for the alliance today.  I am listening for the voice of the ancestors.  I am looking for the comrades of the universe.  Those who have shed tears or made plans on behalf of wings and hearts.  And yes they are ours.  The majesty and the passion.  The vision and the soul.  This is our majesty and passion.  It is our vision and soul crying out from that quiet place that can never be silenced.  

Do we not know?  Do we not understand? The tiger accepts the cage only to show us that he does not belong there?  And neither do we.  The eagle cries to us from the sky, calling us to wake up and join her.

Won't you help me?  Won't you remember your brothers and sisters who are standing just beyond the waterfall?  Waiting for that last full dose of sunlight.  Yearning to be reborn into that fuller, brighter splendor.

I know that I am free.  What else could I be?  Surely I have the heart of a tiger.  And maybe something beyond even that.  Something that will somehow allow me to return the blessing in some way. To thank and honor those who have roared my spirit back to consciousness when the sounds of the sand dull the ears.  

The tiger is roaring this morning.  I hear it.   It is not the roar of a tiger in a cage.  It is the roar of a tiger that could never be caged--not with a thousand chains.  Can we not hear it?  Listen with your heart! He is calling to the ancestors.  Calling to the comrades of the universe.  Roaring without compromise and reminding us that those wings were never really burnt away.

Say a prayer today.  Say a prayer for the tiger, who misses the jungle.  Say a prayer for the eagle who is watching closely.  Say a prayer for the dolphin who agrees to give up the ocean so that we can move an inch closer to understanding.  Say a prayer for the angels who walk among us and for the men and women who are loving us back to consciousness.  Say a prayer for you and me that our hearts and minds would break free from the illusions, and that our souls would shine forth in the unbounded ways in which all Creation was meant to shine.