Only There and Only Then

The best possible use of each day's innumerable experiences -- the secret Good that lies hidden in some moment's delight, or that we find ourselves driven to do -- is to realize, whenever possible, this one indisputable fact: one way or another, we have been "there" before.

We experience the same thoughts.

We run through--or have been run over by--too-familiar feelings in a loop without end, only to do it all over again.

And... it isn't until we actually remember this fact--feel the truth of it in the depths of our soul--that we realize we had somehow...forgotten it.

Then comes a deep humility, a wave of silence sweeping away all that was, or will be.

We are suddenly senseless... because another set of senses rises like the dead from out of the shadows of passing time -- to stand as an Instrumental Witness to an unknowable eternity, yet... that knows itself.

Only there does experience provide, and prove what is truly fruitful to the one within whom it unfolds; for only then does he awaken to see he has always, and forever been there unseeing. But now... his eyes have been opened.