How would you live?

How would you live
if you had a secret portal
buried deep
in the center of your being
that could take you to a place
where every answer
to every question
ever asked
sat waiting for you
ready to jump out
the moment you decide
to beckon it?

How would you live
in this world full of people
in a society
if you knew
that at the root
of each individual identity
it was you
just playing a game with yourself
ego hide n seek
with a singular, eternal
cosmic puppeteer?

How would you live
in the day to day
mundane mediocrity
if you were able to see
that the chaos and order
and radical energy
it took to get you here
washing the dishes
walking the dog
waiting in far too long lines
is something all together magickal,
that there’s nothing boring
about the billions of cells
in the tip of your finger
going through mitosis
to make sure your fingertip
still exists,
that simply sitting in the dirt
and being warmed by the sun
is not an act of laziness
but of devotion
honoring the blessing of life.

Would you live as you do now?

Because, my dear friend,
I hate to break it to you
but
it's all true.

Everything we need comes from within,
we need only be silent enough
to hear it
and brave enough
to search for it earnestly.

And there's the lonely little fact out there
that we are all a Me in our own heads.
I am I and though I see you as you,
you see you as I and I as you
just as I see you
and in that way
we are one.

Sacredness does not need robes
or diamonds
or even the respect of those who encounter it,
sacredness is,
whether a fool can recognize it or not
yet it is simultaneously
something only ever found in the eye of the beholder.
A temple with no god
is a pile of rocks
and an ocean
no matter how polluted
is still mighty
still commands respect
and may still
kill.

The more I understand
the more I see
that knowledge
means nothing
if it is never put into practice.
So I ask myself
how do I want to live?