In God Makes the Rivers to Flow; An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose, Eknath Easwaran includes a selection from Saint Anselm entitled “Teach Me.”  I’ve written the following poem-like reflections inspired by this selection.

Love So Deep

Be it mine to look up to thy light, even from afar, even from the depths. Teach me to seek thee, and reveal thyself to me when I seek thee, for I cannot seek thee except thou teach me, nor find thee, except thou reveal thyself. Let me seek thee in longing, let me long for thee in seeking; let me find thee in love, and love thee in finding. —Saint Anselm

May I seek the light of higher consciousness

with every sense, with every cell;

may I seek to hear the light, to taste the light,

to smell the light, to feel the light on my skin,

to see the light with my inner eyes,

may I seek to know the light with my deep knowing.

Show me my knowing, O Lord.

Show me the way to know the light

that radiates from your being,

that surrounds me,

that I am blind to without your guidance,

that I am blind to unless you give me new eyes,

that I cannot hear without your ears,

that I cannot feel without you inhabiting my body,

that I cannot smell unless you transform my nose,

that I cannot taste unless you open my mouth.

Saint Anselm was right, I cannot know you,

I cannot seek you, unless you show me the way.

I have this sense that there is something beyond

the senses, something beyond the material world,

something that contains and expresses within

the material world but extends far beyond it

into dimensions and realities that I cannot

conceive of, cannot comprehend.

You are all that is and all that is beyond what

I can comprehend. How am I to know

what is beyond the senses

without your help?

I long for what I do not know.

I long with my seeking.

Without your revealing, I am lost.

I cannot find you and I cannot find myself in you.

I ask with all my body, heart, and soul,

reveal to me your presence,

open me to greater realms of perception,

that I may find you, who has never

been lost, who has just been hidden

by the veil cast across my knowing.

And in that knowing, in that finding,

may I find a love so deep

that no words can match it,

a love so deep it stretches with my soul

into infinity, across eternity,

a love so deep I could fall into it

and never hit bottom.