GROWING WISE

     The prospects that we humans can evolve
     Into a wiser version of our kind
     Are slim unless we can at last resolve
     To cultivate a more enlightened mind,
     Discovering how to raise our consciousness
     To view what saints and sages of the past
     Have realized can make a mind progress
     By opening to a cosmic vision vast
     And wondrous, able to transform both hearts
     And heads, enlightening and inspiring souls,
     Inculcating in us celestial arts
     That bind our fragmentary parts in wholes.
          Now is the time we humans must invoke
          That Spirit with whom saints and sages spoke.

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