The lakes and ponds of our consciousness Run deep as wells beneath our souls Forming the Spiritual rivers and streams Which flowing endlessly Empty into the fathomless Eternal Ocean Once the knock upon the Inner-mind has been answered And the door of the Soul is opened Spiritual-eyes never Truly fall asleep (even though some may chose to evade it) For those who chose to evade this reality: It is like one who is possessed of sight trying to ignore the vision in the organ of eye Rather, this vision of the Inner-Self is like unto the blind one who sees with the perception of inward-sight but who has no physical outward vision For when one sense is subdued The prevailing gifts of others grow keen.— Jamal Ahmad Abdul-Karim