My dearest friend,
How are you? I am well, simply cruising on this boat called life.
It has come to my attention that you are searching for a way out. A path that is sure, nearly effortless and accomplishing. Well my dearest, I have found one; the path of truth and light.
It has been here, has been said been written about by many on many cultures and religions yet understood by only a lucky few. The path is narrow, they say. Unquestionably, indeed it is. But how to walk it, that is the question.
It is simple, amazingly simple yet with only the physical eyes may seem astonishingly difficult. It requires alignment to this universe by observance of nature and grounding yourself on certain principles. If I may, let me ask you this, what principles do you live by?
I have seen many who wear many cloaks of personality. Each day you awaken, a certain kind of person you are at home, perhaps a committed parent or diligent student or attentive child. Leaving home, with new clothes on definitely, off to the world you go. There you are someone else, known so differently by the people around you, you know this because you cultivate it. You grow another personality in you, one that you say helps you survive or adapt or live by the difficulties of this world. "The earth is hard," you say, "Maisha ni kusurvive. Lazima ukae ngumu." (Life is survival. You have to harden yourself.) The lies you preach.
Since when was the world difficult? Don't you smile each day? Has time ever created a conundrum for us to solve it? It simply exists. Each day the sun rises and sets, providing for you. Each season brings it's blessing, rain or sun. Yet what you see is mud and dust, bothersome things. If you keep focusing on what disturbs you, you will never know what gives you peace. Yet no matter how much you complain, no matter how long you choose to focus on these difficulties, the sun will rise and the rain will fall. You are simply noise in the universe's ways. You found it here. You must be the one to adapt to it for the world changes for no man.
I know one thing; provision is guaranteed to everyone who is in need. Since when have you searched and lacked? Since when have you asked and was unanswered? The world will only reveal itself to those who want to know it. Let me ask you a second one my friend, what is your focus in life?
Anything of the world is a distraction, a way to live by. Be it work, career, family, they are not you, but simply a means to live by and see tomorrow. For there will always be a tomorrow, as long as time is endless, it is futile to think of it. You will think on it until you die, work until you are no more, live always worrying about something. A waste of time. A purposeless existence. Like billions before you and billions more to come.
You are a fragment in this existence. A molecule in time, one that dents nothing if it is gone. Momento more (Remember death).
Everything that lives must die. Everything that has life in it must come to an end. When you are gone my dearest, you will be remembered by your actions. For only a short while you will be mourned. Make your life worthwhile and do the things you want. Your expiry date is unknown.
Then on Sunday you awaken, a good Christian, you go to church, with fear or reverence of the supernatural. Dressed to impress, you even forget your own sins. For a man is a forgetful being. With each day, he sees himself a new person. It is sad indeed that the drunk, the liar, the bully, the mean, arrogant, greedy person in you is even invisible to you.
You wear these different clothes every day. They lie to you about who you are as you are keen to define yourself; working, at home, outdoors or in church. To you, everything needs a label. You take up these personalities depending on these clothes you wear yet you are far from who you are. Know yourself and be one thing everywhere with everyone, then you will be aligned, at peace.
The path of truth and light is only visible to a few. Do not focus each day on the ending, for your children will grow up and leave you, your work will change or come to an end and your career may never yield or be what you thought it would be. Nothing is guaranteed. Instead, focus on the unending. A third my friend, what do you want most in life that is unending and how can you get it with least resistance and balance? If you want peace, you must know how to give it; love, you must know what it means; happiness, you must know what it is to be happy.
One cannot have what one does not know. Therefore, if it has hidden itself from you my dear, you do not yet know it. You must shed your understanding of it and let the world teach you. For nature is diligence, provision, peaceful, graceful, consistent, ever flowing and most importantly, balanced. If the world is hard to you, you are going against it's current. For how then can you not exist peacefully with it when it has no quarrel with you?
Human beings are the chaos of this universe yet the smallest of things in the cosmos. They bring about destruction and pollution to the world that provides to them, what a way to say thanks and give back. You may be no different my friend for when did you last say you are greatful to see the sun rise? You focus on what is not important and forget, taking for granted what is. It is well. Your days are numbered.
The path of truth and light is simple... You must be truthful to yourself and to others. You must say what you think and do what you say. You must be greatful each day by word of mouth to every little thing that is given to you. When you wrong others, you must say what you have done and ask for forgiveness, hiding nothing, protecting no one, not even yourself. For everything is visible under the sun. Where you try to hide, it will show. And your fellow sons of men will see and know, never saying a word of it to you yet seeing your inconsistencies.
Learn from the universe. It will teach you it's ways.
In this journey, go alone yet do not attempt to solve things on your own. Remember you are human. You were not meant to be alone.
May the light go before you.
Your dearest friend.
