I did this as a 10 minute speed write and was shocked.
When I was a child, I thought as a child can. When I was a young man, my eyes were opened to Light, and I saw and heard for the first time. When I experienced more days, I saw myself, and I had grown to magnificent heights, a giant among men with nothing to lose. I sought a higher passage, something more important than my daily walk. I desired to be set free of my height and weight - I didn't need to be so full and imposing. I sought wisdom and found myself before a yogi, an ancient of days. He sat still and quietly and shone with peace. He was of normal size and wanted for nothing, content. I fell at his feet and said 'Sir, I plead, reveal to me your secret size, your capacity for life and truth.' He was quiet, and I prostrate at his feet, wondered what could be crossing a mind and heart as still as a pond of amazing depth.
When I was a child, I thought as a child can. When I was a young man, my eyes were opened to Light, and I saw and heard for the first time. When I experienced more days, I saw myself, and I had grown to magnificent heights, a giant among men with nothing to lose. I sought a higher passage, something more important than my daily walk. I desired to be set free of my height and weight - I didn't need to be so full and imposing. I sought wisdom and found myself before a yogi, an ancient of days. He sat still and quietly and shone with peace. He was of normal size and wanted for nothing, content. I fell at his feet and said 'Sir, I plead, reveal to me your secret size, your capacity for life and truth.' He was quiet, and I prostrate at his feet, wondered what could be crossing a mind and heart as still as a pond of amazing depth.
After a time he spoke. He said 'Through many trials, by many men, through many days and across many mountains I have lived. I have heard much talk, little wisdom. I have listened to the earth, its cries and furies. I have watched leaves grow, turn, fade and bud. I am older now than I have ever been and know less than I ever thought possible. The universe expands within me and I desire to grow with it. How to grow in capacity? Why, son, you must live. You must watch and inherit the life before you. Consume daily your bread and do not want for what you do not have. Peace is not outside of you." I was curious. I understood his words and they made little sense to me.
"I want this now! Why must I wait?"
He saw my anger but chuckled. "This is the way of things. You can drain a lake in one go and still be thirsty tomorrow. Drink what today gives you."
"But I have grown to such heights! I will not fall to pieces to be small again."
He saw my great height and sighed. "You are not your own creation. How have you added to any of your height? This came by submission and reception -- you had a humble heart then. Have you one now?"
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