Everything Beautiful and Good

Everything Beautiful and Good    (August 1967)

Everyone striving to find life---

but there are many ways, there are many paths which

lead to the One Path.

300 million Earths in this galaxy, and 3 million billion galaxies---

but only one of you

only one of me.

A universe of cultures… of opinions… of feelings

and a life of interactions between them---

Everyone striving to find life.

Why must we take offence at another's best efforts?

Why must we strike our sensibilities against invisible stones?

or jeopardize our own best efforts by accepting the bitterness around us?

We are our own captives---

prisoners only

because we have eyes but cannot see.

Because another's criticism strikes our pride

or because self will takes offence at another's best efforts

How do we see?

through a glass, darkly perhaps

but the glass glitters from the beautiful and good things beyond it.

Let us, then, strive to find life

by meeting the world with the smallest of worldly expectations

but with the greatest patience and with the greatest appreciation

of everything beautiful and good.

-teg