Saying For Today: It is so here, so close, we may look but not see. It is so close everywhere.
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"What brought you here?" asked the Sage. "I'm looking for inner peace," she said. "How do I find it?" "Stop looking," said the Sage.
Who can make the Sun shine? But you can open your eyes.
*Brian K. Wilcox. "Meetings with an Anonymous Sage."
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A rabbi dreamed of paradise. He entered by being dunked into a deep well. When he came out the other end, he saw only a few truly holy persons sitting at tables and studying the Torah, or Jewish Law.
The rabbi asked the guiding angel, “Is this all there is to paradise?” The angel said, “You seem to think holy ones are in paradise. You have it backward. Paradise is in them!”
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What we most deeply wish for is not in time or place. It is not back then or someday. We do not evolve to it or return to it.
"Inside" speaks of here, of intimacy. We say "inside." But it is not inside, and it is not outside. It is so here, so close, we may look but not see. It is so close everywhere.
When we see, we see. When do we see? When we are ready to see. Until then, we do not look or we look.
*Use of photography is allowed accompanied by credit given to Brian K. Wilcox and title and place of photograph.
*Brian's book, An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major online booksellers or the publisher AuthorHouse.
