Stillness

Came home tonight to an email that included this poem:

Stillness

Tormented Friend, why do you still enquire
And thirst to know the sum of things entire?
The more you strive, the less you will succeed;
The mind cannot fulfill the spirit's need.
Striving too hard begets a troubled mind
And those who strive will stay confined.
For you are not the body, not the mind
But Light Immortal, mortally enshrined.

So live in bliss-enjoy the simple tasks;
Seek not to know, and do not dare to ask
Why are you here or what your fate will be.
Be still and listen to the symphony
Which your surroundings play in unity.
The part cannot exist without the whole;
The whole cannot exist without the part;
And reason has no place in cosmic art.

When stillness reigns, you are the sum of things;
The Nothing and the All Oneness brings.
When stillness reigns, you are Infinity
And sense the nearness of Divinity.
Just as the pigeon navigates in flight
And homeward speeds before a hint of night;
So too, the soul, will homeward soar one day
Without a mind to guide it on its way.
~ Robert Goslin