Stay a While
And Take This In
We discover
That what we will face
Is not the rose garden we hoped for,
But the entire forest in which there are roses too.
Stay a while and take this in;
As the thorny bush,
Hummingbirds fly there
And the rattler too has a mailbox in the neighborhood.
Stay a while longer and let this all be seen;
Then feel that all this is pervaded by the One
And these are only expressions as appearance of One Reality.
This is why it is requisite and imperative
That all judgments and opinions be cast aside,
It will seek only roses
And never the larger expanse of the universal garden—
It will stop there or search in some other way
Only to meet the same end again
And never know the grandeur of the universal garden
Or the Majesty of the Prompter, Sustainer and Source
Where even variety is not.
