"The truth is only veiled from you
due to its extremity of closeness to you
It is only veiled due to the intensity of
its manifestation
And it is only hidden from sight
due to the splendor of its light. "
- Ibn 'Ata 'Llah
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the Truth is close to us
call it what you will
Spirit, Sacred, God
we seek forTruth
in Sacred tomes
through prayer and ritual, and meditation
through law and obedience
through ecstatic furor
our journeys take us into
strange and wonderful places,
and ominous and dark places
and still we search
until coming home to our own souls
we find
that Truth was here all the time
we carry the truth within us
with all its portentous power
Truth glows and burns in our souls
so splendid that it cannot be contained
but leaks through the cracks and fissures of our being
into the darkness which surrounds us
even in the worst of us
the light glows and seeks release
and even from those of us most damaged and cracked
those delicious slivers of light emerge
we are the vessels in which truth lives
we contain the light
and if there is to be light and truth in
this world full of hate and anger
distrust and enmity
cruelty and brutality
if the light is to shine in that hideous darkness
we must be the ones
who release it
we are the light of the world
believe it
live it
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