I had just gotten out of my religious studies class, where we had been discussing the power of meditation. We had been talking about how meditation could help an individual discover the one true self and become enlightened. I walked home from class that night, and as I approached my house, I felt the urge to sit out back and do a little meditating myself. I sat in the yard and just listened to the Earth, as the crickets and the wind sung softly in my ear. I heard the rythm of the nature around me, but I tried to focus on my breath. I meditated for about 20 minutes. When I opened my eyes, I felt a sense of calmness and love for nature. I sat for a few more minutes in the darkness, before I ran inside to get a pen, paper and my guitar. The song lyrics below were inspired by my realizations and sense of inner peace that I got from removing myself from the world I mindlessly perceived every day. My consciousnes felt broadened and infected with the knowledge of something I could not quite identify. I felt a powerful essence that night, which gave me a brief but glorious sense of awareness and unity with the cosmos. That essence is the focus of this song.
It is the mountains on the horizon.
No matter where you look you can't see on.
Wonder farther through the valley,
In search for this Blessed One.
As your feet collect the dust from
The wreckage of the age of time,
In yourself you'll finally find it:
A light for the blind,
On all it shines,
You will find,
In Dying 1,000 times.
As a voice whispers so softly,
you wonder if it's He or you or me.
And it's singing of the wisdom,
as the notes float on the breeze.
It's fleeting fast, you won't forget it
because it rests within our core.
You're getting closer to the One from
which all beauty was born.
Take a breath, detach and listen
and soon the world will go
and the wind will blow
then you'll know
we're all, mono-soul.
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