What All Hold Dearest

What All Hold Dearest​

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You can never discover happiness,​

Upon the New York Stock Exchange;​

It's just not something they ever trade in.​

None asking to either buy or sell happiness,​

None ever offering, to sell stock in happiness!​

None ever talking about happiness derivatives!​

None ever claiming, they've cornered the market!​

Nothing, that material wealth might ever attain!​

Which is why starving people in the third world,​

Can be just as peaceful and content as anyone,​

They're just starving to death and want food!​

Fighting to obtain peace, love, and happiness,​

Is the last resort of the completely incompetent,​

Running in circles while screaming and shouting!​

Just like people do, upon the N.Y. Stock Exchange!​

It only gets you more of the same!​

Until you fall down on your knees,​

Either humbled, or laughing at your personal foolishness!​

The greater Truth is not something science may measure,​

For the one greater Truth cannot be boxed and labeled,​

Determining everything the One Truth justifies itself,​

For only our love, can inspire the humility to listen!​

For only love inspires, everyone to open their eyes!​

For love cultivates ignorant wisdom and virtue.​

Nurturing any ability, to use beautiful words,​

Nurturing embracing the silent explanation:​

Ignorant virtue remains, ignorant wisdom.​

Supposedly Will Rogers once complained,​

That all his audiences only ever laughed,​

If his stupid jokes, contained some truth!​

Great Truth, being synonymous with love,​

Unlike laughter the truth cannot be forced,​

Hence the One Truth remains triumphant!​

That is why our silent voice knows truth,​

For the truth, speaks louder than words;​

Louder than any tree falling in a forest,​

Louder than the biggest possible Bang!​

Louder, than we may shout or scream,​

Louder than we often want to know,​

Louder than any loudest loudmouth!​

Softer than the gentle rain may fall.​

Among others Barry Kaufman says,​

The myriad wonderful things in life,​

Are always there just for the asking.​

Are there, if we accept no sometimes,​

If content, with whatever life brings!​

Only by loving may any discover love!​

Only by loving, may we give to others!​

Only by loving might we conquer hate!​

Only by loving do we know true victory!​

Only in giving may we actually receive!​

Love is your freedom to be happy with!​

To make the most, of any gifts of grace!​

To actualize more of any true potential!​

Surrender our simple acknowledgement!​

To choose to be whatever you can desire!​

To grant yourself what freedom you can!​

To grant yourself any feelings you desire!​

To grant yourself any thoughts you have!​

To grant yourself, more freedom to listen!​

To grant yourself, all the freedom to sing!​

To grant yourself the life you truly want!​

To love is to be happy, with and without!​

To become accepting of who we really are!​

To accept any joy in becoming free at last!​

The way to happiness to embrace freedom!​

To just know how to ask simple questions!​

To be happy with our miracle to believe in!​

To be happy with, our One shinning Truth!​

To be happy in accepting knowing nothing!​

To be what may seem altogether impossible!​

Non-judgmental, accepting, and embracing!​

Embracing our context of loving awareness!​

Never requiring, any special kind of training!​

Never actually having any requirement at all!​

No members only benefits or special privileges!​

No one who'd appreciate, any advanced notice!​

No mental gymnastics nor dietary requirements!​

No worry about that horrible credit score rating!​

No sponsor or recommendation, are really needed!​

No need for any sort of introductions whatsoever!​

No commitments, or swearing on a stack of Bibles!​

No surveys or forms, or any hoops to jump through!​

No special age, height, sex, or physical requirements!​

No sales pitch, advocates, or lawyers for any to hear!​

No appointments to schedule or mark on the calender!​

No permits, inspections, or legal bureaucratic red tape!​

No medical examination nor psychological assessments!​

No lectures, videos, or speakers you have to sit through!​

No beliefs, postures, or attitudes for any to ever assume!​

Just the man or woman in the mirror, none really avoids!​

Just the person in any room who still has to listen to you!​

Just the person in the room, who simply pretends to argue!​

Just the one person in any room, who doesn't buy your lies!​

Just listening to whatever your heart is already telling you!​

Just listening, for the songs still abiding in your own heart!​

Sublime surrender residing in sharing what all hold dearest!​

Residing in our abiding our personal awareness and desires!​

Their freedom to accept or reject they ever have any freedom!​

Their freedom to simply listen, to what their heart tells them!​

Their freedom to choose not to choose, who they may become!​

Their freedom to surrender to their heart's desire to be honest!​

Their freedom to become, greater than in their wildest dreams!​

Their freedom to once again begin listening more than talking!​

Their freedom to still pretend they can really lie to themselves!​

Their freedom to pretend they are never the person they desire!​

Their freedom, to become who they desire to be in the moment!​

Their freedom to deny any of us have any freedom whatsoever!​

Knowing vulnerability is the fountain of all loving awareness!​

Knowing that the only thing they know, is they know nothing!​

Knowing happiness is seldom something traders comprehend!​

Knowing none can actually buy, what may only be given freely!​

Knowing, you cannot give anybody anything they always reject!​

Knowing that to love yourself, means to be happy with yourself!​

Knowing poetry in motion, is beyond all scientific comprehension!​

Nobody ever tries to sell happiness upon the New York Stock Exchange!​

But, some Babylonians believe you can buy happiness on Fantasy Island!​

 

This poem is a tribute to the Option Institute which teaches a similar New Age philosophy to my own that combines Socratic Wisdom and Asian philosophy. They became famous for working with autistic children, but teach a form of unconditional love they describe as, "To Love is to be Happy With" and merely translated their philosophy into a non-verbal form for autistic children. The work they do is often quite inspirational and, for example, they worked with the first child in North America diagnosed as being anorexic from birth. Her mother had several other healthy normal children, but at six months old, for reasons unknown, little Mimi simply refused to nurse or eat anything. She was also diagnosed as autistic and, having never spoken a word, one day after years of being force fed, she shoved her hand down her throat and vomited up her food. Eventually the doctors recommended she be put in a hospice and allowed to die in peace because her whole digestive tract was atrophying. Her mother simply refused to give up and, coming across one of the Option Institute books in the library, just knew this was the answer they had been looking for.

The institute came up with a simple plan to have volunteers do rotating two hour shifts with her and merely attempt to engage her and get her to play with them. At no point did anyone force food on her and, after a week or two, one of them told the others they thought they had made a connection. They all agreed, and that person simply went into her room eating a banana. She asked for some, and within two weeks she just couldn't get enough to eat. That's the kind of stupid, obvious, Duh! solutions they come up time and again when all the brains and money in the world seem to fail people and they've been doing it for over forty years. Barry's friends and kids call him "Bears" or "Coach" because he's a big hairy guy that talks more like a coach than any kind of New Age guru and they rely upon a simple lexicon, philosophy, and their hearts more than anything else.