KNOW
Beware the lessons of the leaders.
They will make you believe,
and once you believe,
they own you.
Beware what you want to believe,
for it is too easy.
Eschew belief.
In its place discover ineffable
certainty.
The worldly projection of that certainty will
change with living.
Its forms and practice will evolve.
Its name will routinely don new clothing.
But underneath the trappings and vestments with
which your mind must adorn it,
it remains immutable.
Yes, there is Truth,
disguised in various worldly forms.
There is something to know,
to know much more deeply than the glare of "belief".
Beliefs have to be dearly held because they can
so easily blow away in the next gust of wind.
But some things, something, can be known, known
because it is part of you, because you are an expression of it. You know
it as you know yourself, you dear soul you. You need not put it into
words, for our words are of this world, useful only for communicating worldly
concepts.
Belief deals with details. Knowing
deals with essence. Know, with each new day, know ever more deeply,
perhaps discovering that something you so wanted to believe is indeed true.
