I am not the ocean,

but the depth of its Silence,

blacker than black, more hushed than the soundless.

Fathoms into the fathomless,

I breathe Life into everything in Me.

Yet, I am not the wave that crests above, nor the one that crashes onto the shore.

I am not the foam or toss of rocks and sand.

I am not the twinkle of the sun, nor the blue reflected by the sky.

Though all those are born of and return to Me.

I sink into the depths of Myself and in the stillness,

watch the waves arc and disappear, arc and disappear

For I am that Peace from which the ocean springs.