One Religion

All is written by the same hand;
Our God is the same God,
Who is everything, 
Who is nothing.
Jesus and Buddha sought the same thing;
All major religions are the same
But different cultural aspects 
Make descriptions that are hard to cling.

I may be crazy, 
But I believe God has been trying to contact me of late;
It is all in MY cards along with our imminent fate.
God is not so special,
But there is some message 
I was supposed to decode and know;
The message is occluded 
Like footprints after the new fallen snow.

The message still eludes me 
As the voice gets more and more clear;
The voice makes me stronger
And reminds me I have nothing to fear.
It's meandering on the edge 
Of Bob Marley's One Love
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, 
The fingertips in the glove.

"One mind there is, 
But under it two principals contend."
Light or dark, good or bad,
We choose to commend or offend.
You make it up as you go;
Reality is a mold of what is real;
It's all in your head;
You are mistaken what you feel. 

Lao Tzu, Confucius and Elijah,
Moses, Krishna and Mohammed, 
Were transistors from One Heaven,
Visionaries of what the world could be,
Interested in one main task,
setting the soul free,
As God whispers lightly in my ear,
"There is no you...there is only me."

-Joseph DeMarco

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008



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Date: 12/29/2008 4:19:00 PM
Verse 4 says it all - it is 1, and under the 1, it breaks off into 2 (this is the power of the 3 - light, dark and neutral) the father, the son and the holy ghost; the 3 is everything, and from there it branches off exponentially. keep listening to that voice...Mr, Marley is one of my top favorite all time human's being. love, Kristin
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