I believe everyone has a number or set of numbers. Some people might have the same ones, but it is a matter of accessing and acknowledging the presence of your numbers and realizing when/how they show up in your life.
I have a number. My brother has the same one. It has been following us since we were in elementary school. I never realized it until he pointed it out to me about four years ago. The number is 108.
Now you might know of it since I have it on my car, it's tattooed on my arm, and I talk about it consistently...but it was there even before all that.
108 was the number called for us to be released from school as children. I would check the time at 1:08 accidentally all the time. Cars with 108 on their license plate followed me. They would park next to me. I'd park next to them. I'd flip a book open to page 108. One time in a game, drawing out of a hat, I drew a '10' right before my brother drew an '8' to connect it. I found it on price tags, addresses of houses I randomly looked at.... I did and still do see it everywhere. Literally EVERYWHERE, sometimes 10-15 times a day.
Then I watched the show "Lost". Guess what number they were obsessed with? Yep, 108.....
So I became way too curious. I had to look up the significance of this number. Either I was going crazy or there was more to it than I thought. What I found? To my amazement this number shows up in almost every culture around the world, and it has for thousands of years. Here are a few connections:
- The distance between the Sun and Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun, and the distance between the Moon and the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Moon.
- There are 12 constellations and 9 arc segments. 9x12=108.
- In Buddhism AND Hinduism, there are 108 beads on a mala to aid in repeating a mantra 108 times during meditation.
- In Hinduism, there are 108 names for the supreme lord Shiva
- A Hindu carving on a temple in Cambodia tells the story of 108 gods and demons pulling a serpent back and forth.
- In some teachings of Buddhism, there are believed to be 108 feelings.
- There are supposedly 108 ways to enlightenment.
- Every end of the year in Japan, the bells in Buddhist temples are chimed 108 times to bring the beginning of the new year.
- In Ayurveda, there are 108 pressure points in the body where consciousness intersects with the flesh.
- At 108 degrees F internally, the human body's organs start to fail from too much heat.
- The Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter.
AND THESE ARE ONLY A FEW OF MY FINDINGS.
The list goes on and on.. It is clear that this number is important and treasured in Eastern traditions as well as in space and in mathematics. I analyzed this significance to be the UNIVERSAL SIGN OF GOD.
AND IT MAKES SENSE:
1- There is one divine, one supreme creator of all that is (whether you call it Yahweh, Jehovah, God, Allah, the universe, or nothing at all). THIS IS TRUTH.
0- The completeness or wholeness from spiritual practice or even emptiness from lack of practice. THIS IS LOVE.
8- The eternity of the divine and infinite connection to it. THIS IS JOY.
This even relates to the Holy Trinity of the Christian beliefs. There is one, true God the Father; the inviting, complete love of Christ or Jesus; and the eternal Holy Spirit or way of connecting with God.
108 is simply everywhere. It is what is. I know now that it is a reminder of who I AM and who the divine is. It reminds me to keep GOD IN MY INTENTIONS and LOVE IN MY HEART wherever I may go and during any situation.
Some might say that numbers are of the human origin. They mean nothing to the bigger picture and to classify any with God would be placing Him/Her into a physical, tangible box which are completely opposite of what God is. But as much as we try to ignore it, we are HUMAN. We ARE physical, tangible creatures that try to access our soul and connection with the divine as often as possible, but we are bound by the limits of the world we exist in currently. So why wouldn't God have ways to connect with us on a physical level such as numbers? Everything we understand in life is due to numbers and mathematics. Without it, all would be a blur of confusion. It just makes sense that God is present in it as well.
God is present in any and all numbers.
So my challenge to you. KEEP AN OPEN MIND. YOU HAVE A NUMBER. Your number is out there, around you, following you. It is waiting for you to take notice and latch on to the wonderful implications it has for your life. Stay clear minded and it will surely show up as your guide because the divine is omnipresent, and forever accessible to you.
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