Buddha Sat under a Banyan Tree
What miracle would you want today? Would you want the sun to shine, winds to blow, fresh air to breathe, mountains and oceans to see? Would you like the blue sky by day and the dark blue star-filled sky by night? Would you like water to drink and water to wash your hands with? Would you like faces to light up when they see you? Would you like smiles to come out like stars when you appear?
Would you like love and love alone to stay in your heart? Would you be happy to see anguish and all its brothers and sisters flee from your heart and from the face of the world?
If you could ask for one miracle today, what would you ask for?
I am quite sure you would ask for more than a new car to appear in your driveway.
I wonder what miracle you would ask for if you were a Great One? What would a Great One ask for himself, beloveds? Nothing for himself, for what could be big enough for himself alone? It does not occur to the Great Ones to ask for themselves. They ask for no more than to offer Me to everyone on Earth. The Great Ones must shake their heads and wonder at this miracle they find themselves in the midst of. They were once very much like you. When they were children, they spoke as children. They grew up in a family. They went out into the world.
They saw My Greatness, and that was all that mattered to them. They became Great Ones without knowing they had or even thinking about it at all. They saw their connection to Me, and they thought about Me and they thought about sharing Me. They did not make anyone come to Me. They did not make anyone come to hear them either. They offered. They gave.
The Great Ones, without trying to, revealed that a human being is much more than the world generally thought. The Great Ones proved that there is Oneness and Divinity in all human beings, for they succeeded in bringing out the core of divinity from many. Not all, but many, and the same Great Ones are succeeding still. Their names are spoken. The trail of their vibration echoes in your heart right now. That they once walked the Earth is a blessing to you now. This very Earth you walked on, they walked on.
You do not have to be an orator to be a Great One. You don't have to attract crowds. You don't have to write books. You don't have to roam the Earth. Buddha sat under a banyan tree.
The Great Ones were themselves wherever they happened to be.
Right now, who you are, wherever you are, reaches far. You are connected, beloveds. You are connected to Me and to the whole Universe and to every beating heart and to every leaf that blows in the wind.
The Great Ones did not take up more room than you do. They had one body and stood in one place at a time. They had one heart in their chest. They grew to the point where every heart, every single heart, was theirs. They didn't own other hearts. It came to be that the Great Ones no longer owned their individual hearts. They gave their hearts away, and so every heart became their own. And in this, they were single-hearted. They lived Oneness. Every heart was their beloved. They saw no difference.
Beloveds, there are many unsung Great Ones. They just are what they are, and their love is great. They do not know they are great. It doesn't occur to them. They simply do what is theirs to do. And they feel My closeness to them, and their closeness to Me, and yet they may not have the words to say that. They are with Me without knowing they are with Me, yet they are with Me.
And you are with Me growing to certain Oneness.
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