Assessment

Where do I go from here?

What have I seen? Who have I met?

What have I learned to take to the next?

What would it mean to be at my best?

Master the self,

subdue my ego (and that of the rest)

humble myself in my work,

my actions, my speech

and my thoughts, above all else.

banish any ambitions for empire,

sit back and listen,

and look within,

let go of any criticism

of the ones I love,

for who am I to judge?

accept the flaws in others and my own,

for truly, knowledge and wisdom don’t sit atop a throne.

expand the reaches of my heart,

dissolve the barriers of different parts,

focus on the vastness of mind

and not the rash desires of this ‘Manas.’

content in everything big or small,

love the crude, the beautiful, the hateful in all,

lying as the fulcrum, steady and tall

balancing the world of wonders,

never beating down,

never going under