The next is path

Go to your broken heart

If you think you don't have one, get one

To get one, be sincere

Learn sincerity of intent by letting life enter

Because you're helpless really to do otherwise

Even as you try escaping

Let it take you and tear you open like a letter sent

Like a sentence inside you waited for all your life

Though you've committed nothing

Let it send you up

Let it break your heart

Brokenheartedness is the beginning

Of all real perception

The ear of humility hears beyond the gates

See the gates opening

Feel your hands going akimbo on your hips

Your mouth opening like a womb giving birth to your voice

For the first time

You're singing, whirling into the glory

Of being ecstatically simple

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