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THE SILENCE OF MYSELF
In this lyrical meditation, a sweet inquiry, unfolding one question and answer at a time, brings us directly to our aware being, only to then present the world in the light of this very same presence.

It ends where it began: with the silence of self-luminous being.

REMEMBRANCE
When I was a young boy, our elementary school principal, whose Dickensian name (no kidding) was Mr. Sime, used to tell us, just as lunch was ending, to put our heads down and to be quiet.

The lights in the cafeteria would then be turned off, and recess, which was to follow, would feel far off.

I would close my eyes and turn inward. What was revealed then is still here now: the silence of myself.

SONG OF MYSELF
Whitman began his famous poem, "Song of Myself," thus:

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, /For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

He could have written instead: "For every atom of the only being there is belongs to me as good as it belongs to you."

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