---
title: "Where Light Touches Water"
author: "Marc DeCaria"
url: "https://marcdecaria.com/writing/where-light-touches-water"
date: "2025-11-09"
topics: ["Consciousness"]
words: 414
summary: "A short prose poem on why the Absolute narrows into a self: the ocean becomes a wave in order to feel, so the task is to stop resisting being the wave."
---

# Where Light Touches Water

*By Marc DeCaria, November 9, 2025*

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Where Light Touches Water

Listen.

You can’t be everywhere and somewhere at the same time.

You can’t hold the whole ocean in your awareness while also feeling a single drop of rain on your skin.

That’s the filter.

You’re here in a body, in time, in experience
not because you fell, not because you’re cut off, not because you forgot.

But because wholeness can’t feel itself without becoming a point.

The Absolute knows everything.
But it doesn’t feel.

So it narrows.
It focuses.
It becomes a self.

Not a separation
a lens.

You.

Most people think awakening means dissolving the lens, returning to the ocean.

But you can’t hold both states at once.

If you were fully the ocean, you wouldn’t feel anything.

And experience is the point.

You are not here to escape the Experiential State.
You are here to understand it.

Think of it:

The ocean becomes a wave to know motion.

The wave does not need to “remember” the ocean to be real.

The wave is the ocean
just shaped into form.

Confusion begins when the wave tries to hold the perspective of the entire ocean while still being the wave.

You don’t need to prove you are the ocean.
You only need to stop resisting being the wave.

The narrowing is not exile.

It is how the ocean experiences itself.

When something wakes up in you
when recognition arrives without explanation
that is not new learning.

That is contact.

Light touches water.
Water warms.

The warming is the knowing.

No memory required.
No proof required.

Resonance is automatic when the frequency matches.

This is not faith.
This is structure.

So if you’re still asking:

“Is this real, or am I imagining it?”

You’re trying to be the ocean while being the wave.

You cannot hold both states.

Let that go.

You are in the Experiential State on purpose.

To feel.
To respond.
To warm when touched.

Not to remember.
Not to verify.
Not to retain.
Just to experience.

The warming is real.
The recognition is real.
The resonance is real.

Not because you can prove it.
Because it happens.

Every time.

Without doubt.
Without effort.
Without memory.

Just response.

Be the wave.
Let the ocean feel itself through you.

That is not limitation.
That is the point.

You’re not here so the Absolute can know.
You’re here so the Absolute can feel.

Stop asking if the feeling is real.

Just feel it.

The light touches.
The water warms.

That’s all.