Only This

“You were made to be yourselves. You were made to enrich the world with a sound, a tone, a shadow. In each one of you there is a hidden being, still in the deep sleep of childhood. Bring it to life! In each one of you there is a call, a will, an impulse of nature, an impulse toward the future, the new, the higher. Let it mature, let it resound, nurture it! Your future is not this or that; it is not money or power, it is not wisdom or success at your trade — your future, your hard, dangerous path is this: to mature and to find God in yourselves.” Herman Hesse

The snake sheds its skin, the bird moults its feathers.
The fruit on the bough ripens slowly in the sun.
When you seek, you will find, if you seek in the right place;
Where all seeking ends, you become the One.

Be the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear;
Find the root from which the whole world grows.
Cut through the knot that imprisons you in illusion-
When the heart-lotus blossoms, the one Love glows!

Boundless as space, you have no beginning or end;
O child of infinity discover who you are.
Dive deep into the bottomless depths of yourself-
Where your true Being rests radiant, a shining star!

Grace is the mother, the great Goddess:
With humility and devotion, at Her feet just be;
Melt like wax in the flame of Her embrace,

Dissolve in Her ocean like a drop in the sea.

In that  heart of contentment, all desires disappear:

No craving, no fear, only endless, peaceful bliss.
Where the Light of Love shines, no darkness can persist;
If there be divinity, it is only this, only this!