The Seven Valleys - Unity

 Place in the heart of your seeker

The desire to adapt

Teach the lover

The way to transform

By burning away the self

Show to the knower

The great path of service

And study of the Word

Until the Unity is seen

And the soul appears

Teach then to transcend

Into the heavens above

Teach this with your own

Ever abiding love

Art is a bridge from the heart to the mind.

It carries the secrets that thinking can’t find.

The soul has all the answers you want

The heart is the place where the soul has its font.

If the mind poses questions

The soul will respond

All of the answers

In the heart will abound.

Art will release them

And carry them here

Into the eye and into the ear.

If you would like answers more clear

Enter your heart, be a seer.

Brilliance is not in the bulb

Or in the mirror reflecting it

Brilliance belongs to the light itself

Wherever it may shine

Do not follow the bulb it may burn out

The mirror be covered by dross

Follow the light

If you would have sight

Or not if you prefer loss

 Cross the bridge to the other side

You don’t need darkness in order to hide

Polish your mirror so they will see

Themselves, the way they wish they could be.

The lonesome voice of the seeker

The pleading of the lover

The devoted tones of the knower

Don’t harmonize

Without the gratitude

Of those above

 Don’t try to make your identity become your soul

Let your soul become your identity.

Never force your opinion to be true

Let truth be your opinion.

Why choose your will

When you could accept His?

Endless bounty awaits the open heart.

Boundless grace descends upon the eager soul.

 I see you and you see you

In reflection not in fact

I remain hidden, it’s what I do,

While you continue to act.

Red is the present

Blue is the past

Yellow the future

But nothing will last.

Transcend these colours

Until they are white

Above the differences

All unite.

The empty black

We started from

Will be white

In time to come.

Transcend these colours

With insight

Gaze, at last,

On the naked light. 

To live in the heart you must be owned

By the Owner of the heart,

That’s not you.

Hearts do not belong to us

But we can belong to them.

  The heart is the gate of the city

Don’t give it to passions and desires

Let God’s light shine into it

Let the light of God shine out

The ruby heart of man is a laser

It makes coherent light

It can travel any distance

Through the darkest night

Heart is open spirit sings

Telling stories of many things

   Spirit is open light can shine

Light so bright was never mine

Deep inside till called to appear

Now it’s everywhere even here

Wilderness to wilderness light between

Brighter at times than can be seen

Light to light throughout the night

Ever shining ever bright

 Who will choose good over bad?

Who prefers happy to sad?

Why let the sins of ages past

And all the shadows that they cast

Shut us out of heaven’s gate

Just so we can stand and wait

For another day not near so great

When we will weep for being late.

Over and over the clarion call

Has summoned us one and all,

But we have managed to stop our ears

And listen instead to doubts and fears.

Look to the brilliant shimmering light

That wakens us after the night

Hear the sweet songs of the birds

Listen to the guiding words.

We need not of ourselves be good

In order to follow what we should

We only need to see the light

And it will show us what is right.