When you open your eyes,
what do you see?
Is your perception confined to the shore,
or does it plunge deeply from within
to enlighten the depths of life’s ocean floor?
When you look in the mirror,
who do you see?
Is it the face of the name of the body,
the mask of the actor in the play of fear,
who hides pain behind tasks, laughs, and their career?
Or is it the truth of thyself –
the immaculate conception
of love?
Look into your eyes,
the windows of truth.
Is it you looking in, is it you looking out, or is observer and subject as one?
Answer that question not with the mind,
for it’s narrow in view, shallow, and vain,
but follow the breath to the stillness inside
while holding the gaze of yourself without pride.
Clarity comes from within;
so look – from where do you see?
We behold not of the eye or the view;
the reality of sight is held in the heart,
the home of truth looking out.
Look deeply, and answers will come.
Be patient, and all will reveal.
Open your heart, and with love it will fill;
and with love, truth will be clear.
Thoughts and emotions are confusing and deluding –
stuck in the sufferings and the pleasures of the past,
inspired by old battles, whether victorious or outcast.
This seeking of delight
and avoidance of sorrow,
creates confounded desires –
hopes of a happier tomorrow.
So, when you focus within, what do you see;
the transparency and peace of truth
or the blur and commotion of thoughts and emotion?
If it’s the latter, silence this inner chatter
by embracing this moment
to step outside time
and awaken
to the bliss
beyond the clock bell’s chime.
Be here
now;
conscious of what is
within and without….
naming, shaming, desiring, or reviling.
Mind,
becomes empty and still;
emotions,
released and on their way;
loving truth
now free
to see
with depth and clarity.
Love inside is projected out
and all before is bathed in light –
love from within,
love in sight.