The biggest failing
Is the inability
To see things as they are
To understand them
For how they are
To accept them
The way they are
And to appreciate them
For what they are.
Know What Is Your Own
Life will, sooner or later
Bring you face-to-face
With your own disdain.
Your prejudices will stand
Before you in the mirror
You’ll come to see
You are all that
You had once disowned.
You’re afraid-
Now that you can see it-
That you stand exposed;
And minimized.
Before you can get others
To accept you with this ‘flaw’
How do you go about
Accepting yourself?
When you reject another
You also reject yourself.
Life is disinterested
In your distinction and
In your individuality
But tune yourself to the world
Stand not in judgement, but in harmony
And you will be revealed to yourself.
Are You Ready for Departure?
Have you emptied your mind
Of all resentments and grudges
And offered it at the altar
Of an ever-present love
That has the heart-space
To let thoughts of all textures be?
Have you risen from the feeling of paucity and need;
Reclaimed your inheritance of abundance
And come to the realization
That your blessings far exceed your need;
Have you come to see
That to give is the only way to live?
Have you let go of all expectations
That external change
Must be ordered by your efforts
And instead re-directed
Your attention and work
Towards re-aligning yourself?
Have you understood
That you will not live forever
And that you are life’s guest;
A pilgrim on a journey…
Have you found as yet
What you are here to seek?
Have you embraced both
Strength and vulnerability
Gain and loss
Success and failure
Pleasure and pain
Requital and rejection?
Are you ready for your onward journey?
Have you packed in your magic-
That special power that life decorated you with?
That incredible ability to convert
Darkness to light; experience to wisdom and
Apprehension to love.
Acceptance
How does it all eventually reconcile
In a perfect sense-
All that once
Seemed strange and alien;
And out of the frame
Of a set philosophy
And a known language?
Does one grow to understand?
Or does one grow to accept?
It does indeed seem
That acceptance is the essence
Of all understanding…
Of reconciliation…
Of perfecting your sense about something.
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