I met a man in Galilee he said he was blind but could see. He said, “I am deaf and I hear every word.”
I met a man in Galilee he said he was blind but could see. He said, “I am deaf and I hear every word.”
I asked what he meant by that.
He said “I am not what scholars want me to be, I am not the grail, the hidden cup, I am not a secret” he said.
The sun lay hot on my head I could feel the fierce heat sink deep in my shoulders “I am perplexed” I said.
He smiled at that, the kind of smile that swallows the moon. He said “you stand in light within and without you carry it with you wherever you go.”
I stood confused, the noonday heat fogged my senses “I just don’t understand” I said.
“Ah,” he smiled again, “I think you do but you don’t want to believe its as simple as that.”
“Simple,” I almost screeched, “there is nothing simple in what you said, you sound like a riddle to me or maybe it’s the sun in my head and I just can’t see.”
Said the man from Galilee, “you stand in light within and without you carry it with you wherever you go, what is so difficult to understand about that?”
“But is it true ,” I blurted out “or just something you say to move faith in.”
He gave that smile again the one that swallows the moon. “Truth,” he said with a quick intake of breath, “is the light you shine in. Truth is you,” he said, “you are the truth you do not know, you carry it with you wherever you go, you stand in light within and without, most people,” he said with a sigh, “are too busy to look or they want others to look for them and remain content to be shown the way and I can’t say there is anything wrong in that. All I offer is a different view, a simple truth no more than that. Do with it what you will” said the man in Galilee “but do not think of it as a gift.” He shook his head and said, “I cannot gift what you already own.”
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