one thinks one comes to truth <br />to understanding and wisdom <br />through revelations and Holy Texts <br />and attendance at great congregations; <br />and all are victims of pleasure-pain <br />and one seeks Heaven and seeks to avoid Hell <br />and all are possessed by the selfish desire <br />to Paradise; <br />and to come to the infinite, to the silence, <br />to the beautiful <br />one thinks <br />all one needs to do <br />is to repeat dictums and study theology <br />and to study and quote scriptures <br />and to kneel and to confess <br />and to seek blessings and grace <br />and seek miracles; <br />and to rely on chants and mystery <br />and complete surrender: <br />but there is nothing without one’s own insight; <br />there is nothing that is higher or lower; <br />there is nothing that is not within; <br />there is nothing in the things we hold true and sacred; <br />there is nothing in words, images, <br />and ideology and theology and tenets of faith <br />and all we may hold sacred: <br />there is nothing that is not within <br />and that may not be seen by oneself<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-is-nothing-that-is-not-within/
