We Are Diamonds

When we first see a diamond, we are often dazzled by it’s beauty and the 4 C’s - cut, color, clarity and carats, in which the quality is measured.

The carat weight measures the size of the diamond. Of all the 4 C's, cut is the characteristic directly influenced by man; color, clarity and carat weight are all dictated by nature.

But for all of it’s beauty, a diamond has to go through many nips and tucks just to catch the eye of the beholder. When you see the before and after pictures, you may never even want a diamond, but it’s what happens in the operating room that makes diamonds the apple of our eye.

When we think about a diamond's journey to earth, we may be surprised at our similarities with them. A diamond starts from unrefined coal - carbon that is formed more than 100 miles below the surface of the Earth; some from perhaps 400 miles down.

A diamond goes through excavation, processing, handling, pounding, refinement and shine - just like us. Before it is given life, it goes through many pints of blood, quarts of sweat and gallons of tears. In fact, the lure of a diamond is so tremendous that a person is more likely to kill over a diamond than they are to protect their own children.

Each day as we are tested to stand our ground and to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous ego, we are grinding down the coal and shining ourselves into diamonds.

Each time, we decide to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them, we are grinding down the coal and shining ourselves into diamond.

Each experience that takes us to what we think is the point to no return, we are grinding down the coal and shining ourselves into diamond.

The way the atoms are arranged in a diamond make them tighter than any other substance. The bonds are formed when carbon exists at very high temperatures and very high pressure.

When we are under pressure, though we think we will never survive, we do get through it. We are designed to survive the toughest pressure.

A diamond will not dissolve in acid, neither will our spirit.

Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, and is also one of the most valuable natural substances. Because of this, the diamond is the most enduring of all gemstones - like Soul.

Transparency is highly desirable in diamonds, and when they are nearly as transparent as water, they are known as diamonds of the first water. As the transparency decreases, we get second or third water. Hence figuratively, something or someone of the first water is first grade, first class, or of the best in its class.

While it's not good to be transparent, it is good to be first water. When we are acting in true spirit, thus emanating love fully from our hearts, we are first water.

We are no more than coal shining ourselves into diamonds, every second of everyday. We are shining ourselves into our Soul. We we are at our best, our Soul is shining through.

Our DNA makes us part of carbon that comes from the mantel of the Earth and the bodies and shells of microorganisms in ancient oceans. This organic carbon was buried in rocks that was dragged down into the mantle because of plate tectonics and continental drift.

All life forms on Earth are carbon based, so technically if we were to fall into the ocean near a tectonic plate where rocks were being dragged underneath, in a million years we could come back as diamonds - but why wait? We ARE diamonds NOW.