NOT THIS NOT THAT

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Roundel 13

 

SELF REALISATION isn't this, some drugged state to be attained,

Nor an empty vacuous frisson of mystical bliss,

Self Realisation isn't some position to be maintained;

Self Realisation isn't this.

 

It's not the love of passionate possession sealed by a kiss,

Nor any conceptual notion, by the mind retained,

Nor's Realisation some half baked theory wildly amiss.

 

It's not righteous morality, chaste piety unstained,

Nor some state of mind you might wish to dismiss,

It's not some god of clay to claim and be retained,

Self Realisation isn't this.

 

Alan Jacobs