Knowing and numbness not fully present

Anger disappointment often resentment

Coming from feeling what is not right

Longing the possible you won’t have tonight

Seeping to surface from deeper than anger

Deeper longer truer stronger

Profound disappointment sending you reeling

Beneath the rage a cauldron of feeling

Vision you had mostly missing

Future envisioned you long to be kissing

Different from what you thought you had

Very wide chasm making you sad

How do you cure fix and heal

First acknowledge accept reveal

Be gentle salve it caress with love

In time declare you’ve risen above

Let it instruct teach its deep lessons

Honor learnings as treasured possessions

Use the experience guide self and others

Share wisdom acquired with sisters and brothers

Embrace perspective “it’s not about only you”

Learning’s for all help carry them through

God’s way of teaching a bigger plan

Transmute resolve suffering for all you can

Can you embrace what I’m talking about

One day knowing smiles replacing pout

See value in the gift of that knowing

Foster that wisdom in teaching and growing

What are the lessons you’ve taken from greatest sadness and disappointment?

How have you used them for self and others?

What makes them profound?

– Stewart Levine ©

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Stewart Levine

I have always been a seeker, always looking for the answers to what seekers ponder. I can remember Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Psychocybernetics; Dr. Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person. Moving through my legal training and practicing law the focus was always about people and how to better their lives. All that searching, reading, studying and introspective work culminated in this collection of daily readings for seekers.

My work in the world has progressed from fighting legal cases to mediating divorces to helping people understand the essentials of relationship and collaborating to these poems. How can we collaborate effectively and work with each other in harmony to create the world we seek. How can we mindfully enable this world to become a place that works for all.

My prayer is that through introspection using these poems as a guide we can all grow together in making the world the Heaven on Earth we all aspire toward.

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