What I yearn for cannot be expressed
“It is dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly… There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That is why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling… (Aldous Huxley, Island)
How silence shines into us –
When mind becomes stone
Freed from thought
Hovering lightly
In a state of choiceless awareness
How solitude shimmers in the soul –
When the unsuspected treasure of harmony
Becomes its own eternity
In unfathomable love
Measureless supreme real complete
How the secret of the whole universe
Concedes me only an allusion -
In bright and brief flashes of lightning
‘To walk so lightly lightly child’
What I yearn for cannot be expressed
In darkness
The final breath beguiled
By beauty wonder delight
She smiled
