Self knowledge

my shadow

The gate has many locks
each a conundrum:
How to be unselfish
yet be affirmed,
How to be disciplined
but not constrained,
How to discern
but not condemn,
To be encouraged
but not inflated

And yet, as I behold the grander view
and as my visage brightens in its glow
The gate resolves to shadow,
I go through
and know myself therein
a little more.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 24, 2014

2 thoughts on “Self knowledge

  1. Huh. “I go through…” The “grander view” actually dissolves into self-intimacy.
    The gates of duality stand outside the heart.

    • Hmm. Is that your experience? Does it dissolve into self-intimacy? Or is self-intimacy a grander view? If the gates of duality stand outside the heart, is going through them going into your heart?

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