I know your days have been troubled
And your nights have given you no rest
I know your heart has been heavy
And your foundations have been shaken

Remember always in everything
Of how things look, and how they are
For there is no place in all the universe
Without abundant life
As all things are life
That even the rock is alive with power
And the mist awakened with purpose
That the spaces serve to carry a message
And the orbitals receive her

Remember always in everything
That darkness is but is spectre
An idea to bring forth a question
An experience of witness
That we may see, that we may know
So that we may choose our direction
And that we may discover a greater light
That even the pit has a treasure
And the well of sorrow contains love

Truly nothing is without the power of life
Nor can life be taken by anything at all
As one moment passes to the next
So to do all things pass from one to another
Though we are unaware, and are bewildered
Seeking that which was, for it is gone
Afraid of that which is to come
Forgetting that before we accepted that past we now seek
Were we also afraid of it likewise

And even this is but an experience
For time itself is also an experience
That we may discern shadow from light
Not without, but from within
Of all that we witness in our heart
By the expressions received of our eyes
And the hearing of our ears
So that by all that is alive and blessed
Is given to its own awareness of itself

Truly these things are in the realm of humankind
As a message alone of perception
For nothing that lives does ever die
Nor can anything we love in our heart
Be dead and non existent
But merely outside of our perception
For the edification of our growth and faith
For the revelation of our truth and spirit
For the awareness of our purpose and life

I say to you all
That this world is not the real world
As in the capturing of it all, having everything
Are we found to be unsatisfied
And in the loss of all things
Are we found to be in shock and bitterness
As no such awareness of measurement could be made
Without the foreknowledge of what actually is
That lives in each and everyone one of us as truth

I say to you all
The real world we can find, even here
As it lives in us, around us, and is us
For it is known to us all in our hearts
Proven by our drive to discover it
Because we are aware of Life and know Life
Because we are Life, and creators of Life
Otherwise we would not know anything at all
And be as the beasts of the field

Though the flesh needs to be clothed
And to eat and to drink and to rest
The spirit and power and energy of us
Requires nothing at all
Though the flesh desires to be safe
To have abundance and security
The spirit and power and energy of us
IS abundance and secure – in need of nothing
The flesh shall never be filled, the spirit is fullness

How long did I dwell
In the pains of my own blindness?
How long did I suffer
In the isolation of my own faithlessness?
How long did I believe
In the promise of the world of flesh?
And how long did I always know to seek
The actual reality that I already knew to be true?
How long did I deny my own spirit?

Truly all we have ever known
Still exists, for we know of it
We can know nothing of that which does not exist
Truly all we have ever loved
Still lives, for we love it
We can love nothing that does not exist
Truly all we have ever hoped
Exists already – for our hope of it is proof
We can not hope for a thing that does not exist

I know your heart is of peace
For your troubled sorrow makes it self evident
I know your prayers have been answered
And the awareness of your truth, shall be soon, under the sun

Ryan o0o