As Within, So Without

I was thinking about how we grow from children into adults and forget the joy we once knew. The child within us knows pure happiness, and we must return to heal them from the traumas of life. It is the joy I feel when I look back on all the beautiful things I once did that gives me the inspiration to put these words forth, to help others, for it is where life all begins, with the breath of life, and that is where life will end, with the breath of life.

As it was in the beginning

 so shall it be in the end

As peace was found in a child

 so shall a man find peace within

 as he seeketh out that child

 and in the seeking, understanding begins

For don’t you know,

 when one door is closed

 another is open

 but you won’t see it

 if you aren’t open for it

So be wise

 Do not cry

 Open your heart

 and let space come within

For when the heart is closed

 love fades

 and in its absence

 hate takes root

 leading one

 down a path of destruction

But the light does not disappear

 it waits

And when the heart opens

 the light shines again

 love is felt again

 and that path comes to an end

Truth is revealed

 the divine is within

 not elsewhere

 and love is the answer

With an open heart

 one learns to love self

 From loving self

 one learns to love others

 From loving others

 blessings are experienced

So open your heart, brother

 Listen

For what we seek

 is nowhere else

 but here

Remember the man

 who sought outside himself

 and became lost

For what he sought externally

 was what lived within

Because he spent no time

 getting to know himself

 but gave his time

 to knowing others

 he lost himself

 in the process

Then as the journey continued

 time sat him down

 with no choice

 but to know thyself

And in that stillness

 he saw

As a boy

 he had to look within

 to call forth the man

And now that he is a man

 he must call forth the child

 who once knew joy

 to quiet the frustration of devastation

 and find love within

By focusing on the micro

 which is self

 he came to understand the macro

 which is the whole

Seeing that all things are one

And the way to see it

 begins within

So as within

 so without

As above

 so below

And in the end

 the truth

 will be told