IN ONE DROP OF WATER ... ALL THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD

You all remember this.  Be honest.  You do.  So, just to keep you happy, I'm repeating it.  The subject is different, but in some ways, the same.  Besides, in some ways today almost follows yesterday in the line of thought that I dropped on you yesterday.  It is also related to the item on "Minimalism" which I am sure that you also remember.  Mostly because you never forget anything that I put in front of you.  
First, a little introduction.  Last weekend when I was preparing to sell the antique Edison phonograph cylinders, I stumbled across my collection of Kahlil Gibran booklets.  This man had a good run with me.  For some years, he was the trigger for my meditations and reflections.  His influence on me slowly diminished in favor of the collection commonly known as the Bible.  But he is still hanging around in my life.  Today, here is what happened after last weekend.  I tripped over a little book of his quotations entitled "Patterns of Happiness" published and distributed by Hallmark Editions.  Kahlil Gibran's work is in the public domain, but Hallmark's is not.  That's the reason for the quick nod of acknowledgement there.  Anyway, here's the sentence that hooked me: In one drop of water are found the secrets of all the oceans of the world.  

That is not a scientific statement.  It is a spiritual one.  It is related to the philosophy of Friar William of Okham and the answer to yesterday's Zen question.  It is an invitation to give the universality of Truth a chance in our lives.  We live in a world where the detail is the shell that contains the fullness of the reality from which the detail falls.  We must give faith to the certificate in order to discover the fullness of the value of the experience.  We are constrained to delve into the sincerity of the affiliation in order to discover the strength of the effort that it took to earn the intimate relationship with the sponsor.  We are conditioned to believe more in the throne than in the human effort that it takes to keep the throne meaningful.  We believe that in DNA we come to full knowledge of the person.  We even get to the point where we believe more in the color than in the quality of the human.  We do the same when we shop for an automobile.  The detail of the manufacturer and the color of the finished product are more important to us than the essential conglomerate of the finished product.  
I could go on and on, but I've got you into this deep enough for one thought.  if you want to have a little more practice with this kind of stuff, check out Khalil Gibran a little more.  Or, you could open your Bible and check out the book of Proverbs.  If that doesn't get you going, nothing will.  Not even Khalil Gibran.