Write these words about enlightenment in your heart

Write these words about enlightenment in your heart…

“enlightenment always tastes of freedom.”

― Martha N. Beck, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

from “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelo

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet

Whose hands can strike with such abandon

That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living

Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness

That the haughty neck is happy to bow

And the proud back is glad to bend

Out of such chaos, of such contradiction

We learn that we are neither devils nor divines