I have been an eagle soaring over a mountain, and I have been a mite in a sand pile on a huge beach on a blue planet in a huge universe surrounded by other vast universes.  I have been a huge sun burning over billions of years and a young mother on the blue planet with little ones who knew nothing about my talents or hidden desires, and I have been the mote in the eye of the sand mite.  I have crossed the desert with my humps full of water from the oasis and been the snowy mountain far beneath the majestic eagle, and I have been too many other creations over too many lifetimes to list here in this one.

I find so many differences as I travel through these lifetimes and among the creatures I find along the way, but I find more commonalities by far.  The rocks feel just as the stand-up creatures do, although in different ways, and the stars are shining with the same energy that flows through the mote in the eye of the sand mite.  None is more important than the other and each is a part of the whole, and no life or time of existence will ever be forgotten whether it shapes the future of a solar system or the present of a speck of space.

I see the creatures flailing about searching for meaning and I wish that I could tell them that they need not search further.  They ask why and who, where and when, but they do not see the answer before them.  May I tell the star that it need not shine the brightest or the flea that it need not suck the most from its host to matter or be infinitely essential?  No, for neither would listen to something so simple, and even  if they could they would both snicker at my lack of understanding of the ways of the universe.

I say to you that I loved no less deeply as a mote that I did as a stand-up creature or a star, and I will live no less of a life as a tiny crystal in a mountain than I will as  a swirling tornado or a slithering worm-creature on a distant planet covered in poisonous gases.  Appreciate the sameness and celebrate the differences as you go and do not waste time searching.  The answer to your riddle is within your fellow rock or stand-up creature and yourself, so treat each creation as the unique and cherished puzzle piece it is.  You are all not only the question, but you are all the answer as well.  If you are to solve the puzzle you will need the closes, so cherish each creation you meet in all of your existence.  Learn from the mote and the star and everything you come across in between, for as long as you exist you add to the glory of all others.  Love as deeply as the eagle and live as fiercely as the lion, shine as brightly as a galaxy and swim to the bottom of the frozen sea, but no matter where you land remember that you are creation and therefore infinitely precious.  The rock you step on and the air you breathe are creation as well along with the stand-up creatures and the passions that burn within them, and that is the answer to your question.  All of creation is essential and you are all creation, so nothing need be anything but what it is meant to be to be.  You are the answer and you shape the universe as surely as any other part of creation.  Remember.

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