The Dewdrop

"Separate though the dewdrop be, yet it is a part of the Ocean, no matter how far distant it may be, and the attraction of the Ocean will surely, and without fail, draw it back to its bosom.  And the dewdrop, if it could know the truth, would be so much happier and stronger, and braver if it could know that it was superior to accident, time, and space, and that it could not escape its own good, and that nothing could prevent its final triumph and victory when at last "the dewdrop slides into the shining sea."  How cheerfully it could have met its many changes of form, and the incidents of its journey, if it could have gotten rid of the illusion of separateness, and know that instead of being a tiny insignificant dewdrop it was a part of the Mighty Ocean- in fact that its Real Self was that Ocean itself- and that the Ocean was continually drawing it toward it, and that the many changes, up and down, were in response to that mighty power of attraction which was slowly but irresistibly drawing it back Home to Rest, Peace, and Power."      ---Yogi Ramacharaka "Gnani Yoga"