A drop of water encounters a vast sea and immediately feels drawn. What happens when the droplet attempts to dip its toe into the sea and experience this expanse of oneness… for it’s self? The Droplet and the Sea highlights the shift in identity and blossoming scope of awareness that occurs when the ego momentarily dissolves, revealing the underlying unity. While poking fun at our fears over this sudden loss of self, it offers lighthearted reassurance. The droplet’s journey to the sea is also the sea’s journey to the droplet. Available now at Amazon.com

1. The Droplet
and the Sea

2. Copyright © 2010 Lisa M. Lindeman
Cover illustrations by Lisa M. Lindeman
Book design by Lisa M. Lindeman
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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Printed in the United States of America
First Printing: October 2010
ISBN: 1453873643

3. The Droplet
and the Sea
A Story of Awakening
By Lisa M. Lindeman

5. The journey of awakening
begins easily enough...

6. ...with a droplet of water
dribbling here and there
across the earth.
With a droplet identity.
And a droplet life.

7. ♪♫
You are wandering along.
Oblivious.
Happy.
(for the most part)

8. Although
you have a lot of
surface tension
...and a few gas bubbles.

9. One day,
you encounter something
very strange.

10. It might be
a meaningful coincidence
that turns your head
or a brief moment
of indescribable clarity
that gives you a glimpse
or a perception
of something other
than what you expected
you could see
that stops you.

12. Nothing has ever felt
so important,
so relevant.

13. All that water
seems familiar somehow.

14. Like home.
Only... closer.
The water exerts a great pull.

16. Something within you knows,
though you cannot say
how it knows,
but it knows
that the great expanse of water
holds a missing something
of your being.

17. I
am going to love this
--you say to yourself.

18. As if entering
the ocean of existence
is just another experience
to be felt
by the little I.

19. You dip your toe
into the water and...

20. disappear!

21. In that moment
you
become
YOU.
Wordless
bliss
fills your awareness.
Understanding.
Compassion.
But...

22. Holy crap!

23. Becoming
YOU
can be scary!
I mean,
where did
you
go?

24. You grab on
to what you were before.
A droplet identity.

25. With a droplet life.
I mean,
you run like hell.

27. And yet...

28. You miss the great expanse.

29. To enter the sea again,
you realize
you must lose everything.
(in a way)
(not really)

30. To enter the sea again
seems an enormous task
for
one
little
droplet.
Silly droplet.

31. The sea remembers.

33. YOU remember.

36. Bloop!

38. ♪♫

39. Who are you?

40. Are you the droplet?

41. Are you the sea?

42. Or are you both
the droplet
and the sea
from beginning to end?

43. Do you fall into the water
only to be consumed
by the waves?
Do you
become
the great swell
--opening your eyes
from within its vast,
borderless body?
Pose these questions
to the sea,
and the sea says...

45. Bloop!