We Are Light: A Journey Back to Our Divine Nature
In a world saturated with distractions and noise, the question “Who am I, really?” often echoes quietly beneath the surface of our lives. It’s a question that poets, sages, and seekers have wrestled with since the dawn of time. The lyrics of "We Are Light" offer not just a poetic meditation, but a profound metaphysical truth: we are not just in the universe — we are the universe, made of light itself.
Light as the First Principle
The line, “If light created the universe, then all things are a form of light,” sets the foundation for this understanding. It echoes both spiritual intuition and scientific insight. As Einstein famously said, “All matter is energy.” To take it one step further: all matter is frozen light. In other words, the solid world we touch is condensed vibration — a slower dance of the same radiant frequency that powers stars.
From this view, light is not just a metaphor for goodness or clarity — it is the very substance of being. “Creation is the transformation of light into matter, and enlightenment is the return of matter back into light.” This quote from Luminous Life encapsulates the spiritual journey: from source to form, and from form back to source. We emerge from light, forget our origin, and through awareness, memory, and practice — we return.
Poetry as a Map of the Soul
The song "We Are Light" is deceptively simple. Its verses trace an arc — from questioning our origin, to recognizing our essence, to awakening to our divine purpose.
“Where did we come from, where do we go?
We search the stars, the soul, the glow.”
This is the eternal human inquiry. In every culture and age, this longing has been expressed — the deep ache to know not just how we exist, but why.
Then, with breathtaking elegance, the lyrics lead us inward:
“In every cell, in every sky,
A silent truth begins to rise.”
Here, the seeker finds that the truth is not distant — it’s encoded within the micro and the macro, in atoms and constellations alike. The universe is not external. It is a mirror of the inner light.
The Call to Awaken
“We are light, pure and bright,
Dancing with the speed of night.”
This refrain is both a celebration and a revelation. We are not broken. We are not incomplete. We are already that which we are seeking. But to realize that — to make it real in our daily life — requires a shift, a practice, a way of returning to the self beneath the noise.
And that path, as you've so insightfully reflected, is spiritual practice. Whether through meditation, mantra, prayer, or silence, the light within us begins to glow more clearly the more we listen, the more we remember.
“To heal, to grow, to understand,
The light is reaching out its hand.”
Healing is not about fixing something broken — it’s about removing the veils that hide our brilliance. Growth is not climbing to something new, but unfolding what has always been. Understanding is not adding knowledge, but remembering light.
We Were Never Born to Die
The final verses move beyond the individual:
“We are light, infinite sky,
We were never born to die.”
Here lies the essence of non-duality, of timeless consciousness. We are not just bodies. We are not even just souls. We are light in motion, eternally dancing through cycles of form and dissolution. Death, then, is not an end — it is a return to radiance.
Living the Light
In a time where darkness often feels overwhelming — war, climate collapse, social division — it is radical to claim that we are light. Not because it ignores the pain, but because it transforms how we hold it. We become bearers of hope, anchors of clarity, transmitters of truth.
To say “We are light” is not to escape the world, but to illuminate it — one thought, one act, one breath at a time.
Final Reflection
Your realization — that truth is simple, yet takes a lifetime to remember — is at the heart of this song. It's not complexity that brings liberation, but clarity. And clarity comes from silence, sincerity, and the steady practice of turning inward.
In the end, We Are Light is more than a song. It is a mantra for this age. A call to awaken. A reminder of who we’ve always been.
Yes, we are light…
We are the dawn…
And the divine light goes on and on.
Let it shine.