Luan Hassett

The whole world is looking for a test
Craving it, in fact.

Because people crave the truth.
Truth is not what you have been told it is.
It is something far, far, far
more
delicate.

Golden snitches
Whispers of insight
Grasp too tight and you lose it.

People crave it.
The whispering changes that tell you
who you are
in relation to this strain

These are the whispers that guide the expansion.
Humans jolt to get away from them
seconds after contact with desire.

Between the craving & the leaving falls the shadow.
The shadow that thwarts us
even while
The flat wafer fails to nourish.
The flat fact sequence doesn’t enliven.
Rubber estranged from road.

And so we come to Circling. 

The present, the capacity for presence, deepened.
Non-striving tempted into… therein lies the
discovery.

Can the coming to rest sustain itself in the midst of the inducement to workfulness?
It is good to have purpose, good to aim, good
to set goals.

But like all things human
where the concept is laid down on paper
it must rise again & be integrated

into the evolutionary unfolding of selfhood—
the silent space after the finished chapter.