seek and find

We search our lifetimes to reach a thing called enlightenment, but when
the searching leaves us exhausted and weary, we come to realize that we
have never gotten any closer to finding the peace we yearn for. The more
we search, the more elusive this inner contentment seems to become. Is
enlightenment an illusion - an ethereal golden ring set up by some evil
carnival lord to keep us going, hoping, dreaming, believing that the
struggles and trials we face on earth will culminate in a great reward
for us, somehow, someway, someday? Perhaps we search for something we
already have. Perhaps we are searching in the wrong places. Perhaps
defining ourselves is where we go wrong. The word is made flesh. If we
saw ourselves as finders, maybe then we'd see we have all that we've
been longing for. Someone once told me "Your beliefs shape the reality
you create." Yes, I do believe I'm inclined to agree.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

The path to enlightenment is within and the path to righteousness is the inner manifestations of a pure, loveing heart . Like I said in my poem clutter , we all have to remove so much of our clouds , baggages , sins before we can reconnect with the Divine since our birth...Excellent philosophical poem...:).........

[a donkey, briefly]

my friend got high and read ginsberg for the first time
then the news said he died
ginsberg was true to the path
it's possible we can only ever learn to live in the moment
and that will only ever be as complete as our knowledge and understanding
something about quantum and creation
do be do be do...