hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

It’s all a question of perspective. We have to expand our perception and begin to consider, maybe even to understand the relationship between that grain of sand and the world, between that flower and heaven, to believe in our ability to hold the infinite and to make that one moment last an eternity. At the same time we have to understand the opposite. The sand is the world and yet is in the world and just a part of the world. The flower is heaven, but at the same time is not heaven and is rather a glimpse at what could be or of the unfathomable which is so much better, so much more beautiful and incredible. When we grasp the infinite we become limitless and at the same time we limit it and often find we need to let it go. A moment, an hour, a week, a year, a lifetime is an eternity in the moment and yet only a moment in eternity.

When we fail to see both perspectives we become truly blind. When we miss the world in that grain of sand we loose the significance of that single grain and when we see it all in that single grain we can loose everything else. If we fail to see heaven in the flower we may loose hope and if we see heaven as the flower we may miss the heaven in all that surrounds us. If we hold infinity and become limitless we may loose direction, but if we limit ourselves we have no need for direction because we aren’t going anywhere. If our eternity is wrapped up in a moment we may become stuck, but if we don’t live as if each moment could be the most important in our lifetime, we fail to live.

To see the world and heaven we have to have our eyes open, to hold infinity and eternity we have to be willing to grasp at them.