There is a universe within us all. It is there, even if we ignore it. Modern man has been looking outward, and paying little or no attention to the world within. And much of our suffering and animosity unfolds from this lack of awareness.

Artists and poets have the ability to tune in and share with us this world. The rest of us enter it only when we fall asleep, when we dream.

Amazingly, individuals who tell me that they have no creativity at all, often come up with extraordinary stories when they narrate their dreams.

Then the trick is to help them be with their eyes open who they already are with their eyes closed, a life unfolding its talents in the world.

Artists have the ability to dream with their eyes open. Somehow they have managed to keep access to their inner world and have become immune to the petrifying effect of external pressures. Emotions such as shame, guilt, and hate, have a petrifying effect, while those of caring, affection, and peace; create the ideal environment for us to manifest our talents.

As we liberate our dormant or repressed Self, we become more and more the glorious being we were meant to be. We all have a uniqueness without which the Universe would be incomplete. We hold the instrument that plays the key notes of the symphony of life. Clouds, rivers, birds, sing their part, and then there is a pause. This is where we were meant to do our solo.

How unfortunate are those who do not fulfill the expectation that life has of them. And how wonderful are those who rise to the moment to give life’s melody its most moving note!

We are meant to sing with the universe, to enrich it with our lives.

This is the universal man, the one we are meant to be.

Deep within us lives the place from which the entire universe unfolded. At moments of great peace or joy or love, we enter it.

The ancient Romans refer to it as the magic city of “ROMA”, a city that became visible only to those who found it. The entrance to this city was in its name. Read backwards ROMA becomes AMOR, the Latin word for love.

We all come from this city.

Look around you.

It is easy to see who is in it.

You can see it in their eyes, in their smiles, in their lives.

All it takes is a blink of our eyes to enter the magic city.

Can you see it?