The Long Journey

The Long Journey

I have been on a lifelong

spiritual and philosophical journey.

I have talked to scores of people,

read many books, gathering points of view,

and I've seen many things happen

mysterious, wondrous and terrible

each with their lesson to teach me.

Some of the things I've learned

are that within virtually every

difficulty in life, are opportunities hidden,

and that life is far, far kinder and compassionate

than most people ever happen to notice.

I've learned that things have a way

of working out, even when the situation

appears extremely dire.

I've learned that life has given us all

an enormously powerful medicine

in the form of humor,

and that one of its most potent applications

is laughing at ourselves.

I've learned that both Mother Earth

and the Universe around us all, are,

in all probability, alive,

and like tiny cells of a vast, vast living being,

we each are inseparable from that greater life.

I've learned that the long journey of all humanity

to a deeper understanding of the life

that we are a tiny part of, has resulted

in all of our religions, sciences and philosophies.

I've learned that life allows rather than dictates,

and that it is we who judge ourselves

by our own actions, ideas, emotions and attitudes.

I've learned that the Universe

is unfathomably, wise, compassionate, and kind.

She is the advocate of all that lives,

She has no prejudice and holds no grudges.

I've learned that she is so kind, in fact,

that she'll even hang out

with Mormons, Baptists and Catholics on occasion.

This, of course, was kinda hard for me to accept ;)

Dewey Dirks