The Child

The child was always longing to escape.

Many thoughts later

I've looked and looked for answers,
and the more I look, the more questions, more questions, do I find.

Oh, yes, and oh, yes!
Parallels and more, and yet more, do I
draw,

Yet, no answers, no answers, do I
find.

And, so, and, so,
I shall draw.

'Even scientific studies seem to suggest that there is a correlation between excessive self-cherishing and damage to one's physical well-being.'
[pp. 81-82, 'The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation', Thorsons 2000]


'Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.'
Prov. 16:3, King James Version


'We must maintain a delicate balance; trusting God as if everything depended on him, while working as if everything depended on us.'
footnote to Prov. 16:3, p. 1101, Life Application Bible, King James Version

On Gender

He sang in silence,
Eternal
She was the Silence,
Everlasting.

Author's own

If we want the Truth, was the first word a mistake?

'One of the strongest Buddhist convictions is that it is not possible to express in words what is most real, sublime and ultimate. For this reason even the finest, most lucid and consistent doctrine can only be regarded as provisional and as obscuring the ultimate truth rather than revealing it.'
[p. 81, 'Buddha: [foreword by the Dalai Lama] William MacQuitty, 1969, Thomas Nelson and Son Ltd.]

Outer Space and Inner Space

'For transition involves the breaking down of previous structures, and this disintegration reveals more clearly the underlying process of change, like threads being woven on a loom'.
Melanie Reinhart