In Spanish the word for “without”
Is “sin”
I find that extremely appropriate
On a couple levels
There’s nothing “out there”
And you’re missing nothing
In here
So what are you looking for?
You can’t seek to know
What you already know
And what is there is there
Regardless of whether you know about it or not
You can uncover
You can remember
You can peel back the skin
Look within
But you are still not without
You are not without connection
You are bonded, branded
Human and inextricably linked
Whether you try or not
Whether you care or not
Whether you hide & seek
That illusive truth
That so often
That slips
Between the glass
Where snakes and spiders crawl
In in the night
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First there was that
And now there is this
It’s an open and shut
Case of doors vs. windows
You either are
Or you aren’t
But even then you still are
Whether you realize it or not
Whether you like it or not
Whether you choose to
Accept
Know
Trust
You cannot find something
That was never lost
Not to mention, you couldn’t lose it
If you tried
You can never be lost
You can never be alone
You can never be separate
Whether you feel it or not
There isn’t anything
You can do
Or say or be or believe or
Win or lose or fail or hate
Or love
In order to be more connected
To be closer to G-d or nature or
To be enlightened or enslaved
Or to be whatever it is
You aspire to be
Except to
Know
That you are
Undeniably
Irrevocably
Inconceivably
Connected
No matter what you eat
No matter how you pray
No matter who you hurt
No matter when
No matter why
Because knowing is all that matters
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Take all the time you need with this
Most of us remember slowly
Bit by bit
Like peeling layers of an onion
But what a tearful process
That is!
And not nearly as expeditious as knowing.
So, let’s keep it simple.
You can spend your whole life
uncovering, revealing;
having little epiphanies
and big cathartic awakenings.
But how do you get back
To those fleeting moments
Of bliss?
How do you keep
Your equanimity?
Why not surrender
to the fact
that you already know
everything there is to know?
As a teenager you always suspected it.
As an adult, you gained experience
and with it humility.
Why don’t you just take your know-it-all self,
your innocent child-like self and
your experienced self and run with it?
Enjoy!
Your wise, old self
Will thank you for it.
You know?
