Quiet Realization

       You try to think your way through all you know, and all you think you know, and all you don't know. You talk for years, and you listen for years.  You read.  You think.  You write.

       And it begins to come.

       It comes as if it were the twilight an hour before sunrise.  It comes as if it were the twilight an hour after sunset.

       It is a quiet realization.  If it is morning, you see the gathering light.  If it is evening, the stars.

       It broadens and deepens;  and you know:  there are coming more quiet realizations.

       Thank you.  Thank you.