1. What if we stop the becoming and be?
2. What if we stop all the seeking and see?
3. That one day is today,
4. That it’s time we were learning,
5. That we always have been
6. That for which we've been yearning.
7. That the mystery of life is our most dearest friend,
8. That we had no beginning and won’t have an end.
9. That when everything seems like a terrible blunder,
10. That the only true view lies in judgementless wonder.
11. We've looked here and there and all under the sun
12. To find out it’s all here, it’s all now, it’s all one!
13. And not only that, to your joyful surprise,
14. The gateway to truth lies behind your own eyes!
15. You see it’s all you. It’s All you. It’s all YOU!
16. You’re the essence of grace and of light and of truth!
17. “So this is the bliss and this is the knowing?
18. It’s really not what I expected!
19. It never occurred to me, not even once,
20. I just needed my vision corrected.
21. This is great! This is awesome! I feel so complete!
22. This is everything I always sought!
23. I hardly can wait to call all of my friends
24. To describe what I finally got!”
25. Oh it’s so elating to see ego fading
26. And not recognize the delusion,
27. That by thinking we’re now at some spiritual peak
28. We have stepped back inside the illusion.
29. The illusion of two where I’m better than you
30. Except when you’re better than me.
31. And it all seems absurd that we don't have a word
32. For this state of Divine comedy.
33. Now you’re over there and I’m over here.
34. Separation just couldn’t be clearer.
35. But just look at that space as the stuff that unites
36. And you get a good look in the mirror.
37. That reflection of consciousness binds all to all.
38. It’s the mystery that we all share.
39. Though it seems often times that it comes and it goes,
40. There’s no changing the fact you’re aware.
41. Aware and awake, let there be no mistake.
42. There is no turning back now you’ve passed through the gate.
43. Those people you see are much more than your brothers.
44. Those people are you ‘cause there isn’t an other.
45. You are the one who’s observing your mind.
46. You are the one who cannot be defined.
47. You are the spirit in spirit-ual.
48. You’re me and I’m you ‘cause it’s all mutual!
49. You wrote this poem that you’re hearing and sharing.
50. You’re the scared child in need of kind caring.
51. You pulled the trigger that took a young life.
52. You’re the horizon, the dawning of light.
53. You’re the kind heart that shelters a stray
54. And the gathering dark at the end of the day.
55. You are the nectar that flows with devotion.
56. You are the force that keeps planets in motion.
57. Not just on a mental or physical pace,
58. You are the energy; you are the grace.
59. You are the grace. You are the grace.
60. You are the grace. Yes, you ARE the grace!
61. Still, to live in the absolute takes quite a shift.
62. Take all you believe and then give it a twist.
63. Everything now has a brand new perspective.
64. As you climb to a vantage point much more objective.
65. The things you hold dear will be given a shake
66. To see all as One is a spiritual quake.
67. And you may feel adrift in this whole paradox
68. But don’t fear that your calling’s now cast on the rocks.
69. Yes I know what you’re thinking ‘cause I do the same,
70. “To not serve those suffering would be such a shame!”
71. So don’t get this wrong; you can still fight the fight
72. For the values and causes you find good and right.
73. The relative truth doesn’t just drift away
74. When you pull back the veil to a much deeper way.
75. You can still be the change that you’re hoping to see
76. But what happens from there is not your destiny.
77. Remember the answer’s as near as your heart
78. That you’d still choose to act even if at the start
79. It had all been revealed what would be the outcome
80. ‘Cause we love in this moment, not someday to come.
81. So who is it that stores the perspectives and views
82. And thinks they are set in the concrete of truth?
83. And who tries to make sense and who tries to keep order
84. By smooshing the infinite into some borders?
85. And who thinks it knows what’s right for everyone else
86. When it can’t seem to straighten things out for itself?
87. And who is it that can’t seem to recognize fear
88. Has been steering its course for these so many years?
89. And who says "I would know if this was the sensation."
90. Then quickly concludes “This can't be realization!
91. No, that has to come with a flash and fire
92. And a total reversal of all that came prior!
93. I just haven’t earned it. I’m far from perfection!
94. This can’t be it here! I must move some direction!
95. I should be in Samadhi and bliss and nirvana,
96. Traveling through time to wherever I wanna!
97. ‘Cause true realization should take a long time!”
98. ...If that’s what you believe, it’s all up to your mind.
99. “Well how ‘bout the mantras, the bhav and devotion?
100. Am I not still but a wave on the ocean?
101. I still kind of like all the ritual and prayer
102. But to whom do I pray if it’s only me here?
103. You see I was raised Christian. And I am a Jew.
104. And I practice Islam. And I’m a Hindu.
105. I truly believe my path leads to the truth.”
106. Well you’re right! Yes you are! And this moment is proof!
107. It’s proof to the fact that all you have done
108. Has led you right here to the glory of One!
109. One through your path with all that exists,
110. One with the Light that you thought you had missed.
111. One with the saints to which you hold dearest,
112. One with Your God both farthest and nearest,
113. One with the one thing that’s going on NOW.
114. One with that You who always knew how
115. To embrace every moment in most joyous fashion,
116. To love unconditionally, to be true compassion.