The tears were shed… Falling down my smiling cheeks… It All was welcomed… All the laughter and all the sadness… I did not judge it for what it brings… Neither for what it means… My path here is finished, as well as it just begun.

Even though the path before me stands unknown, I no longer have doubts of its rightness. I know where it leads, even when I know not. The world of shadow and the world of light do differ not. That which creates and that what is created do differ not… Wherever I walk, a path appears before me. My faith, prevailed… My search for the Truth, rests unshakable. I stand as firm as a mountain, and as liquid as water I evade all obstacles on my search for It… That, which now stands before me, That, which my eyes witness, is nothing that can make the man of Will stumble.

‘Where there’s a Will, there’s a path!’

The darkness now presents its final call… It always shouted my name… Since I was a child… And probably boundless time before… All those times I knew there’s something odd with this world… Yet being told what is True, my wonder faltered… And For long I have wavered… Even when the valley showed me so much of its wonders… Even when it showed me so much of the wonders hidden Within me! I still wavered… Till this day…

Och, how blessed I am with what’s before me! The point of no return… The true test of my faith awaits me… The path walked…Just a forefront to the valley of death and darkness… But I shall not falter any longer! My flesh accreted with my soul and spirit… My whole being... Possessed by the will to the truth…

And so, it arises! And with it, all the essence of my being! All the ancestors follow in my footsteps! All the beings watch in wonder! All the trees and grasses kneel in awe! The very sky tears, and from the clouds a hot rain pours!

I take a first step ahead! And with it, the very earth shakes with the strength of my conviction… The tears of joy and sorrow are blown away from my face by the warm winds of the new world to come.

Second step falls upon the dried grass that gets swollen back to the earth. My arms are kept spread… Spread like the lowered hills that pour out as the valley ends. It was my doubts that bore this valley through the unmovable mountains... And same as they entered and molded and crushed everything that stood in their way… As they tore the rocks and mud through…Now, as everything else does… Their path ends here! And ending here, they spill out of the valley! They spill and spread to the new world… Forming the grains of endless sands spread out to infinity… Never to be gathered together again… Never to attain such power of unity… Alone, they stand weak and powerless… With nothing to stick to…

And so, the third step crushes the sands of doubts beneath my boot! Its weight shakes the earth’s core, filling it with love. Love for the life that is to come… For the life that came… For life that Is…

With the fourth step onto the sandy earth, the warm winds deliver grains of opportunity into my mouth… The very seeds of learning ahead… Feeling their course dryness I never felt before, I swallow them with awe… I shed my thick clothes, leaving but racks beneath them. In lands warmed by faith, in lands warmed by truth, I shall not need them…

The fifth step removed the clouds from the skies above. My sight is now clear! My wisdom dispersed the clouds of false ideals… The false that was learned as truth!... Is now shed away… Allowing me to see the sun clearly. And it is its warm rays that fill me with joy… That fills my every step with wonder… With the power to learn and be humbled by the wisdom given…

And with this new path of enlightened purpose, the sixth step closes the valley behind me. That which poured out from it, forever seeking the truth, shall never return. And as nothing that came out can ever return the same… The side hills grow together into impassible doors. The trees and grasses, the rocks and waters, they all join to reinforce it… Forming The Mountain Door that only those of true faith can enter! The door before which a common man turns and returns in sadness, as there is nothing one’s mind was looking for… Not a thing at all…

With the seventh step I enter the new world fully… As a seed thrown into the lake, I sink and land at its bottom, growing anew… I am reborn… I am welcomed… The warm winds of this new world slash my face with the dust of old… The soft sands ease me and let me sink into them… Kneeling down, I take a fistful to feel this new world intimately… I watch how the sand slips and falls through my fingers… I take a deep breath of the hot air, and with arms spread, I look at the cloudless skies. The burn of the air buries into my lungs and filles them with life’s fire… The power of the new sun sheds a light upon my very soul… The joy as never felt before arises within me… The feeling of being Here and Now arises within me…

“I AM HOME!...”