There Is An Immensity In Me
There is an immensity in me
It is huge, wide, deep and full
It is so grand, awesome
That when it seizes me
My spine shakes and trembles.
It is a wonder, it is full of bliss, has
endless beauty
It lights the way.
It makes me rich, silly with joy
Spontaneous, giddy
The immensity in me.
It was there at my birth
There when I started school,
It was there on the ball fields of my youth
Winning or losing at some game
There in classrooms, learning catechisms, even in conflicts
In the warmest summers and rain-filled winters,
In the grace of springs and the golden light of falls
There even in my darkest desperate moments,
filled with shame and doubt.
That immensity in me
Would not fail me,
Would not release me,
Held tight its grip.
The immensity is the gift of poesy, gift of vision
Gift of caring and compassion
It knows no beginning,
Will have no end.
There is immensity in you
It is an overwhelming fountain
gushing joy
That cleanses and transforms
And connects to the Holy People,
the Great Ones
Whether you are Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian or
of a religion so close and compelling it needs no
books or titles.
This immensity was with you when you were born.
It cannot be other
No matter how you were born, where you were born,
to whom or why
The immensity is you.
Ah, we have great gaps in the world, filled with hatreds
and misunderstandings, terrible woundings, horrible slaughters.
But the immensity is not shaken, does not shrink away
It claims us, drives us back into to life
To try again.
There is immensity in me –
It is greater and deeper and more wonderful
Than I can say.
That immensity in you is the same
Though different of race, speech, nation, sex, age, color, character, talent
WE ARE NOT – WE ARE NOT
Not to the immensity in me
Not to the immensity in you
Not to the immensity.
Oh, the immensity!
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Comment by Taron on January 10, 2014 at 5:08am
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The kind of revelation that brings so much more clarity to all that follows. I can still feel it, too, and it has nothing to do with mundane ego, it is the discovery of truth through the eyes of our conditioned minds, suppressed from the understanding just how spectacular our complexity and our potential is, the universe in form of humans.
Thanks, Paul! Really sweet, neat and beautiful.
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Comment by Hunter on January 9, 2014 at 1:20am
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So seldomly are such profound and artful presentations of such very real personalities and personifications of the human potential captured in mind yet alone put to prose and poetry .
When I read this it brings to mind the illustration of the Temple of Man , that inner temple of his character that has been similarly illustrated for all of mankind so many Milena ago in the Temple at Lu-xor . This makes it clear to me that these qualities and potentials have existed in us for time out of mind..
Thank you so much for this .
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Comment by Dr. Sohiniben Shukla on January 8, 2014 at 10:58pm
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God Bless you....
Immensity in Each one of us....!!...as We are Human Beings...
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Comment by schwertel martina maria on January 8, 2014 at 3:22pm
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a very beautiful poetry , very true and amazing!
Thank you , Paul , for sharing it with us
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Comment by steve on January 8, 2014 at 2:13pm
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Wonderful Truth - a thing of Beauty!
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Very nice
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A beautiful message communicated in wonderful images and poetic ways. I can even feel the intensity of it from afar at the other end of the screen. Beautiful indeed!
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Rosicrucian Comment by anki on January 8, 2014 at 12:31pm -
This is such a beautiful piece of art, so very inspiring. It is a light to show the way to how to be the best of who we can be. Thank you very much for reflecting that kindness and beauty that shines so bright in all of us and reminding me of it.
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Rosicrucian Comment by Paul Garza Jr on January 7, 2014 at 11:31am -
Thank you
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Comment by Being on January 7, 2014 at 11:23am
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Yes. Oh yes***
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