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To work together

The search for a path towards light

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I begin here searching for the inner depth of my being,
which is buried underneath my outer manifestations 
and not always visible to me. 

Yet the kind of seeing that I need to have 
in order to come into contact with this inner being 
is not a seeing of the eyes. 

For the eyes of the inner body are sensation. 

And this sensation is quite different 
than anything I think I may know about sensation. 
So I have to begin, 
before I do anything else, 
throwing all of what I think I know away 
so that I can come to the threshold 
of what is unknown within me. 

Every particle of my being is connected to one another, 
and yet I have no practical understanding of this matter 
unless I enter a much more intimate and direct form 
of contact with the being body. 

And everything that is possible in terms of my inner life 
begins in that place. 
For without the sensation, 
I have no eyes to see within myself, 
and I am as a blind man or a blind woman, 
groping through my life 
to try and touch something real. 

Yet already, as I acknowledge this, 
the light of the body begins to flicker, 
calling me towards it. 

And in order to approach it, I become very still 
as though I were stalking a firefly in order to catch it 
and had to approach with respect for its being. 

There is a single spark in the soul that ignites sensation, 
an eternal light, that if I only knew it, 
were connected to the very cosmos itself. 
For all beings draw the inner light of their own soul from that source. 
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