Regardless

I've been thinking about some of the things I've been hearing of late from those I've been sharing time with and also of some of things I've read in the past.  The journey from a solitary perspective to a realization (and I might add place of grace) of something bigger than we are is full of many thoughts, words and adventures. 

The initial tentative motions into believing there's something on your side, to the early glimpses of what is possible are like the first glances outward from the nest by the young bird.  As we begin to flap our wings in preparation for flight we look about us and see others close by and marvel at the birds that swoop and glide so majestically in the sky.  We are struck by the grace and sublime motion, a part of us yearning to fly as others do.  Sometimes are caugtht up in this longing and our attention slips to comparison.  At others we are set on launching ourselves from the nest with a focus on what we will need to ensure successful flight.

Yet for all our sight, and the peception through our senses, there is a part of us that knows how to fly, that will always know what is needed.  Will our comparisons, or focus on things, distract us from the part of us that knows?  Perhaps.  But such moments are, I believe, both human and necessary.  There's something powerful in integrating both the brain that would analyze the nest, the tree, the sky and other elements about us, with that part of us that soar as we do. 

If we are aware we will come to recognize those moments when we let the reasoning overcome the knowing, the being.  And in time we will come to know that we know, regardless of what we may reason.

Regardless
Behind asking, "How am I?"
is a supreme calming Truth.
Carrying me from I to we,
regardless of status or youth.

When we've shifted from,
"Oh well" to, "All's well."
Past reaction without thought,
regardless of heaven or hell.

Focused on All, not judgment,
awareness practicing we.
Released of past and future.
Regardless of you or me.

Past treating for specifics,
or stockpiled purity,
is the seeking of Truth and awareness,
regardless of surety.

Copyright (c) 2009, Carmien Owen