The Mountain Tells Me So

"From His divinity, He departed and advanced

towards it; And now, throughout the whole universe, .... He

moveth.

The limits of His boundless infinity cannot be

discovered; And in mankind is His abode, .... and His place

of sojourn. "

                                                          Mirza Khan Ansari

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I have walked this road before

awed by the beauty of the mountains

and calmed by the pines and firs

stately sentinels

sometimes my soul, agitated and distressed

is calmed

and there are other mornings

when I am stirred out of my lethargy

for woven into the tapestry which unfolds before me

is the Sacred

unmistakable and powerful

all love

demanding my adoration

these dusty paths are my retreat

from that which drains my soul

the ugliness perpetrated on the universe

by human beings

from the destruction, the hate

the violence

the tears apart the Sacred fabric of creation

and rends body, mind and soul

sometimes it is difficult to believe that which

I deeply believe,

that the Sacred dwells in us all, binding us together

with threads

oh so thin

of love

and yet

as I stand

small

in the midst of all the grandeur

looking up at eternity I find

that I cannot fail to believe

that the immensity of Sacred love

which is never ending

will win

no matter how hard we try

to bury it with hateful words

and violent acts

the mountain tells me so