One

I dreamt I went to a beauty contest and all the contestants were souls, beautiful, lovely, bright souls. Spirit creatures filled with light, emanating feelings in all the colors of the rainbow as they drifted past me. Hundreds of thousands of souls gathered together for the express purpose of shining.

The hills were green and lush, the air warm and damp. Delicate wisps of thought sat feeding under the silence of the cypress trees. Vibrant pulses of energy suckled in bodies that encased them. The celestial silence of a million souls vibrating in perfect harmony accompanied each one as they began the final journey, waited for their moment in the sun.

As their time came nearer, they began to gather closer and closer, until it was impossible to tell where one began and another left off -- a sea of souls, undulating with love and peace, washing out over me in wave after wave of ecstasy.

And amid all this wonder one stood out brighter, warmer, sweeter, than all the others. One drew my heart and my soul into the light with it, gently led me into the fullness of the silence where I, too, became one with all the others.