This poem is part of a tribute in Sacred Web 51 to Dr. Wolfgang Smith, who passed away on July 19, 2024.
Language cannot contain reality.
Physics does not fathom its hidden ground,
But Being knows it. We know more than words
Can tell, more than our instruments can see.
So the Tao teaches: ‘Who knows, does not say.’
The Holy One proclaims only: ‘I AM’.
Meaning, reduced to thought, is elusive,
An ever-moving Heraclitean flow.
But the river’s source is deeply present;
It lies in the Spirit we plumb to know.
Speech beyond our mind’s grasping intellect
Or the science which ‘murders to dissect’,
We know, not in words but mystic silence -
The force that IS, both in and around us.
-M. Ali Lakhani
