On those empty green roads
\nNo.. I done think I should call them that
\nThe path of green gently trodden grass
\nThat leads to an unknown place<\/p>\n
It is not a path in space perhaps
\nBut more like a gateway into another time
\nA time where there is no wrong
\nA soft glow of right all around
\n<\/p>\n
I look back at when I was
\nSo much pain, so much darkness
\nBefore I was led to this path
\nUnknown to myself I wandered here<\/p>\n
And like Alice I go right through
\nAnd find a place of beauty
\nBeauty not of form, but of thoughts
\nAll around me like an everlasting soft mist<\/p>\n
I used to think of the sins of past life
\nNow I wonder of all the good I may have done
\nTo come to this stage of life
\nTo find joy in sorrow
\nTo find happiness in anger even<\/p>\n
Finally I know that desire wont
\nBe some place far away, improbable
\nIt would be home, right beside
\nAnd walk me on my path to enlightenment<\/p>\n
I dont know all there is to know yet
\nI dont think this path leads to the ultimate truth
\nBut it is a step forward in understanding
\nThat emptiness is not nothingness
\nIt is rather everything there is<\/p>\n
Who we are is not outside us
\nWho we want to be usually ends up so
\nBut the first step on this path
\nTells us that looking within
\nIs where desire is. Where love is.<\/p>\n
When you look inside the emptiness within you
\nYou find a world so deeply hidden
\nYou wont realize it is you
\nThe you who should have been<\/p>\n
And now I know that morality
\nIs not what I was told it is
\nMorality is the desire I found
\nAnd morality is to be able to help
\nothers find their own version too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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