This tiny little thing. It contains within it the totality of the tree, as a possibility. It may not yet be a tree, but within this humble acorn exists the entire potential of a majestic oak tree.

The tree already exists, even though we may not see it. The potential exists, which means that in a metaphysical sense, the tree also exists.

It is the same with a human being. When the egg coupled with the sperm, in a metaphysical sense the entirety of you already existed.

And even before that coupling, you existed as potential. You existed as potential when your father met your mother. You existed as potential in every loving word, and every argument settled. You existed as potential when your grandfather met your grandmother. You existed in every fallen soldier, in every war ended. You existed as potential, even when the first stars began to form. And even before that - before the stars and before the universe - you existed as potential.

If you have existed through all of that, then perhaps you are all of that. If you are all of that, then you are also the unborn potential of the infinity to come, and you are the endless memory of infinity past. Everything that has ever happened, led to you. Everything that will ever happen comes from you.

In the metaphysical reality that surrounds all of us and which expresses itself as the physical reality, you have always existed and you were inevitable.

You are in the metaphysical (and the physical although it is harder to see the physical interconnectedness than it is to see the metaphysical interconnectedness) the entirety of the universe. You may feel small or unworthy in the grand scheme of things, but that view discounts the possibility that you are in fact the grand scheme of things.

Because what you are, ultimately, is endless potential for becoming. Without the potential in you there could be no universe at all.