Go Forth in Love

I'm engaged in a search.
A search for truth and goodness.

And yet I can't
Conduct that search outside myself in the world 
I wish to conduct that search from within 
To discover where the truth and goodness lies in me 
Within Being
And in order to conduct that search,
I will plant my feet firmly,
Deeply in my sensation of the body 
In such a way that no matter where I go 
Or what I do now or later,
Today or tomorrow.
I will always be rooted deeply in this sensation of my Being.

I let go of everything I think I am
And I allow the stillness here within myself 
To be the state from which I begin 
And the teacher who instructs me 
In the art of sensation 
And of life itself.

I let go of every tension that binds my molecules together
And I let them come into relationship with one another freely 
As though there were no rush 
As though right now where I am 
I have all the time that will ever be needed
To sense myself
And to try to understand 
That I can search for a way to love myself 
In the way that truth and goodness love me.

For the soul is a place made for truth and goodness 
To come and dwell 
And it is always issuing an invitation 

I cannot hear the sound of that note of being unless I sense 
Unless I am so still within 
That I stop in emptiness.

And here in this emptiness, 
At the beginning of everything there is,

I am in this instant like a newborn 
To whom nothing has ever happened.
Waiting for the first event in my life to take place.

For this is a new day and a new life.
And I have been given permission 
And shown the way from here 
To go forth into this new life today 
With Love.