Not words, not music or rhyme I want --

First we conceive the "I" and grasp onto it.
Then we conceive the "mine" and cling to the material world.
Like water trapped on the water wheel, we spin in circles, powerless.
I praise the compassion that embraces all beings.
- Chandrakirti

I am continually struggling with the concept of truth. More specifically, the concept of absolute truth in regards to religion.

There are many things right now that are difficult to reconcile with what I have always believed, how I have been raised, my 'gut' reactions to things... I pray for wisdom, but worry that if wisdom finds me, it will contradict my comfortable definition of spirituality.

At the moment, I want to believe certain things -- and at the same time, feel something like a heretic for my own attitudes. I'm at a bit of a stalemate with myself.

Well.