Within 11.07.11

WITHIN

11.07.11

Reading again, I pick up a book

recommended by a friend.

Off the pure spiritual bent

I've been on or so I thought.

Letters to a Young Poet is the name on the cover.

but the message is the same.

For it's a compilation of letters but no sooner do I begin

before it gives me pause.

For the first letter strikes me so.

It's as the author I've mentioned before Dr. Hawkins says:

Once you are on this path there is no getting off.

It is where you are meant to be.

So I'll leave you now to ponder what I read

that led me back to the path I'm on.

Though I thought I'd take a break tonight.

From Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Now (as you have permitted me to advise you)

I beg you to give all that up.

You are looking outwards,

and of all things that is what

you must now not do.

Nobody can advise 

and help you, nobody

There is only one single means.

Go inside yourself.


All My Love Always, Keith

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play.

It transcends the ego.

I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,'

or divine spark within the soul.

Sue Monk Kidd