there are so many things we yet don’t understand of the world, and of others
but can feel the Truth of them deep in our bones
we don’t understand what it means to be different – not like that, exactly
oppressed, confused by, struggling with, in that particular way they do
but we do know different-ness, struggle and oppression in our own ways
the Truth, you see, is never arrived at through intellectual understanding
it is a sympathy, a knowing, a feeling
a transmission of Oneness
as ordinary and matter of fact as the Sun or Stars or Ocean
the Truth is: you are exceptional, as am I
and one day…one day while you are gazing at the ocean, the waves lapping at your feet
you will know this
so deeply
so expansively
it will be as if someone has turned on the light in a very dark room
and you will see that everything and everyone you ever thought ordinary, banal even
is bathed the permanent Light of exceptional brilliance
the nobility of the Human Spirit
and the Beauty, the reverie of this
will overtake you
-Jessica Shepherd
healer, artist, author of Follow the Moonlit Path