Winter of 1991
I met my wife Sharon in 1989. We shared a common passion of finding and expressing the joy and truth in life, and we meditated and prayed together for many, many hours together, especially early on in our relationship. The fruits of one of our shared meditations is the following “poem”. I had a particularly deep, profound connection during a meditation around 1990, where I had once again entered into Truth’s domain. There was no apparent message, that is, until I returned to my conscious mind. The silence then used the words in my memory to create the following message (the first stanza I wrote in 1985, prior to any real spiritual unfolding, and I could never finish it until this meditation in 1990 filled in the body of it):
THE VOICE OF AWAKENING
Though the slowly shifting sands of time, Create ever taller hills for this lost soul to climb, It must be in my selfish, hateful world of no reason or rhyme, I must begin the search for Truth, to find the Love that is sublime.
“Oh seeker of Truth, God’s high mount you would climb, “Though you now stumble through the valley’s shifting sands of time. “Stop confusing your mind with worn out rhyme and reason, “For they are forever charged by Truth with treason!”
“Oh mental marathoner , only on Life’s treadmill you now stand, “And using anothers’ words and thoughts keeps you life’s ‘also ran’ “You’ll forever chase in vain Love’s all-knowing voice, “So be still, for with your run’s end, is the Cause to rejoice!”
“Oh marionette’s dancing image of the screen of the world’s mind, “With all of those conditioned beliefs in control, what freedom could you find? “Release yourself from all of those memories’ materialistic strings “To prepare for the inner Wisdom that only my Intelligence brings!
“Oh shadow boxer of evil, when will you ever retire? “Tis only champion of a dream world to which you aspire! “Cease giving energy to your illusions with those mental pugilist blows, “To reveal the peaceful mind of the One who now knows!”
“So please wake up to Love’s voice sweet somnambulator, “And realize the eternal truth that “I” within “you” is greater, “Than any mental image you could ever form or learn, “And then your World will reflect the One for whom you now yearn!
And then the real “punch line” to the search for Truth:
“To be in realization of Truth, is to find God’s high mount another illusion to climb, “Continuously being recreated by fearful, desirous minds caught on the merry-go-round of time” “The non-illuminated, restless mind remains forever bereft of Love’s Rhyme and Truth’s Reason, “And only chases after mirages, until it sees all of its movements are guilty of treason!
