Another fluff of comfort, after some hard-earned experience, some system crashes, reboots and such, is the acceptance that endings and beginnings are interconnecting parts of the same cyclical phenomenon called life.

One does not exist without the other. One does not exist without. Nothing new. You can even read a version of it regarding caterpillar deaths and butterfly births on my toilet wall. But how we perceive endings and beginnings, how we ourselves begin and end, lies at the heart of the matter, and could easily be considered a form of art. I mean, let’s admit, you need loads of practice to improve your skills at cultivating this art form. Conditioning yourself to accept the impermanence of things, and especially endings, can be a lengthy process to begin with, more so because endings initially mean the loss of something good in many cases…

How frustrated I was back in the day whenever my father’s offered dose of sad-smiled wisdom was:

Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end, my bug.

I felt it was like giving me a noose to stick my neck into. Like an obstacle rolled in my path towards bliss. Nothing lasts forever sounded like impending doom. And I reacted accordingly, armed with cynical mock-toughness. The kind you feel as a 12-year-old punk. Exploited. ‘Cause there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, essentially. It has a tendency to be switched off again, so what’s the use anyway? Or from a different perspective, what if we reach it, such an ultimate goal? Then you are caps locked into happily ever after. Then it’s

That’s all Folks!

But it can’t be. Because it’s not. Think back a bit. Remember the first time you had to let go, experienced the end of something? And when you eventually dared to open yours eyes again or take a breath of fresh air after resurfacing from the plunge you had taken, you realized you were still able to see and still able to breathe. And if you looked around, there was probably also a new beginning staring you straight in the face somewhere on the horizon. A new realization. A new layer. A new life. Another version from a myriad of others. Something that could not have sprung into being had another reality not ended, transformed. See how, in a way, beginnings guarantee endings, but endings also guarantee beginnings? It’s endings and beginnings in all kinds of forms and on all levels, micro to existential, literal to metaphoric. And what you thought to be a 2D journey from point A to B, is more likely a multiD cycle of transformation, in a mutually guaranteed existence of ends and beginnings.

And as papa Dr Michael Laitman puts it:

Mutual guarantee can be explained with the example of the interaction between all parts of nature: between the still and vegetative, the vegetative and animate levels, how they feed and support each other. This is a special, very interesting science. It is simply amazing how all the parts of nature depend upon, are interconnected with, and need each other.

And I, as any spiritual being having a physical experience, need this stuff of comfort, this understanding, to be able to accept both sides of this coin, and appreciate all sides of existence. This understanding that to die is also to live, to end is also to begin, in a kind of Eternal Dreaming, as the Aboriginals say, where death is but a rebirth from a previous life in a life cycle, and

we are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to love… and then we return home

traveling through our spirituality, which is a

oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live and breathe. – Mudrooroo

And when we learn to see endings and beginnings not as faults in our stars or an imperfect system but as key components of transitory nature that enable us to be part of a transformative cycle and organic experience, perhaps all attributes of existence can fulfill their potential. Harmony. Till death do us ‘a part of’ oneness. Me, as a beech tree from my BiosUrned ashes, 100% biodegradable, no expiration date, full seed compatibility. Stuff of comfort.