A VISION OF LOVE


On a clear cold fresh North of Scotland morning in the year 20__ I walk out of the front doors of Cluny Hill College. I turn right at the drive and up into the pine woods that cover Cluny Hill itself. Through the woods I walk, smelling piney smells, listening to the little noises of the woods, breathing the cold crisp winter air. Then I notice something happening. I feel different. It is as if I've taken a drug and am beginning to come on. But this feeling is infinitely sweeter, more real. It emanates from my heart inside me. I can feel my heart. It is like an engine burning in my chest. It feels vast, an ocean of fire. A gorgeous intoxicating emotion leaps through me. It is like all the loves of my life rolled into one. And then some. I feel spectacularly and absolutely alive.
And now the woods look different. Now the trees, the path look different. Everything is alive. An invisible and great Presence is here; all is transformed.
Suddenly the woods erupt with the pounding of running feet, fast approaching. I spin round and see a woman coming straight towards me. She slows and stops, excited and breathless. Again the woods fall silent until in words etched out of the air and silence she speaks :
"Do you feel it too?"
We hold each others' eyes. We are no longer two individuals. We are melting. Reality melts. The woods explode into infinite fragments in front of my eyes. We are standing in the centre of Love. The woods, the young woman, myself...all of this is Love, has always been Love.
I still have my voice. I hear myself say :
"Is it the whole town ?"
The young woman is laughing. She is weeping.
She speaks :
"Haven't you heard ? It's the whole world ! "