ESTO 16

Everything is in the eye of the beholder

Everything that appears to an eye as cream

Rises to the top

Near Death accounts are exemplary

If we search for such accounts we will get cream

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If we search farther we will get accounts that would not make the grade

Unless we see that is the case and are aware

I beheld ALL early and it stuck

I became judgmental in this way

The top of everything was lacking

And had no real authority

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I took authority to myself

It was my most precious possession

My freedom to choose

And to say no

This is not true if it does not include all

Nothing is

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I did not wear this knowingly upon my sleeve

Others me better than I knew

I was deemed mature and immature

I still am

I have wealth

I call it dross

I have a darling companion I worship

I call her gold

I have unconditional love for all

All have the same wealth within

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I have my own perceptions and will share them with anyone who wants to know them

I have my own griefs too random and weird to recount

I have my own memories

I know they are all intact somewhere

Probably in me

But that could be we

And all as well

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I do not cotton to all the ego simplification of every teaching I run into

Either everything is beautiful

Or I can think so if I like

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I am more alive writing than walking on the street

There I must lean from time to time

I am more shaky than I was

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Do not bother me with methods and solutions

I live by assuming what will work for others

Or for all

A bad habit

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I assume people I respect are right

I assume everyone deserves respect

I assume we are cut from the same cloth

And our diversity delights us all when we are sane