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Looking for Home. A nondual poem from Georgi Y. Johnson

LOOKING FOR HOME
 

I looked for home in the valleys
but they were wiser than me.

So I looked for home
through distant shores
but the search
chased me faster
from sky-stabbing mountain
to death’s ravine,
and its intoxicating
eternal lack.

So I looked for home
in most loyal liturgy,
until, (volumes later),
the last word
betrayed the letter.

I looked for home
in the children,
only to find them
looking for home in me.

So I looked for home in the heart,
but the heart shattered
again and again
into a new kind of chaos
of fright and shards
of light.

So I knelt by a river
of heaven-touched losers
and looked for home in the water,
and home flowed on and on
yet never moved
at all.

Georgi

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The passion to serve the 'other' in the relief of suffering through processes of awakening is born out of the simple truth that it makes me feel better. Your welfare is my welfare. We never were divided. The love we share is the love we experience. So it is with peace.

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