(photo credit: Colin Morrison)
Let us imagine we are light and that we illuminate this life and form we inhabit. As light, emotions pass through us. Our emotions and how we experience them are very like the way light moves through water.
This is a story of reflection and refraction, but don't leave me now thinking this topic dry – it is anything but. This tale is full of colour and as with the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, reflects all of life in every gleaming surface. This is the story of you and it is also the story of me. Who am I you may wonder? Mystery adds tone and so perhaps I'll leave that for now. I will say look no further than yourself, for the answer is, life as most live it is nothing but visual echoes in this idea of time.
If we stand in front of a looking glass, our image is reflected. In this way, there is nothing happening in the perception of outside ourselves that is not also happening within. If you see ugly, there is an ugliness within waiting for you to meet it. Should limitation be what you hold, you can be certain that you will experience limitation in circumstance. This will be played out in your world, in the people you interact with and what you perceive. You are your own creator and life is a mirror of your creation. We are all creators.
It's also true to say that for many, they are unaware of the emotions they hold in their deepish deep, in the cobwebby corners of the (constructed) self. This self is older than a rainbow but much much younger than you. In this illustration, the water droplets represent yourself, or at least the self you have come to think of as you. Emotions that pass through this experience of you refract, in other words, are bent and re-directed into other reflections of your story. Frequently they are projected onto others. If you use your inner vision you will see, these projections of colour have a way of illuminating other's stories too.
Maybe a rainbow is just a rainbow though – a beautiful show of light and colour that nature puts on. You see, everything is in everything and it matters not at all where you look, the mirrors are everywhere.