The rainbow within

As a child

     I was told and believed

                 that was a treasure

                     buried beneath every rainbow.

I believed it so much that

       I have been unsuccessfully

            chasing rainbows

                   most of my life.

I wonder why

     no one ever told me

         that the rainbow

     and the treasure

          were both

               within me.

             - Gerald  G. Jampolsky, M.D.

This reminds me of the story about the fish looking everywhere for the sea ...

looking and looking and looking everywhere for what was already all around her,

she just didn't recognize it.  Or, like Dorothy who journeys all through OZ looking for what she too already had within. 

I wonder why we don't teach our children that God is within each and everyONE ... that they do not need to journey the world to find what they already have!  Imagine how people might learn to treasure and love themselves and take good care of themselves if they grew up knowing that the treasure they were seeking was already closer than their very breath.  And, imagine too how differently they might treat others!!

The AABB reminds us of this wonderful truth when it says (p.55):

We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. 

When I forget this,

it helps so much to simply pause and take a deep breath ....

and another ...

until I connect with truth once more!!

Namaste'

Cate