vis-a-vis knowing Truth
one must beware of using
only a small portion
of our memory and thoughts
to define and respond to all of life
David Hume called thought
‘a little agitation of
the brain’ of which we make
a model of the whole universe
Thoreau said consistency
is a hobgoblin of the little mind
leaving a great soul
with simply nothing to do
Patanjali taught cessation
of the turnings of thought
so that the Spirit stood in its’
true identity as observer of the world
Richard Burke described
Cosmic Consciousness
as intuitively knowing the
universe is God and God the universe
Father Bede Griffiths wrote
that we in the West think the mind
is everything yet there are three levels
of body, mind, Spirit leading to ‘silent witness’
teachers open the door
but we must enter by our-self
and emerge liberated as Self-knowing
the Higher Truth within and without
Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
January 8, 2021
image ‘Sage Patanjali, Author of theYoga Sutras’, artist unattributed
