What and How

What you see and how you see it
are two very different things.
'What' interprets the external.
'How' ascends on sacred wings,
soaring upward with new vision,
leaving earthly views behind.
'How' reveals the fact that seeing
is the providence of mind.

'What' is lost in fascination
with the objects eyes portray.
Unaware that this perspective
leads both mind and eye astray.
For when 'What' becomes the focus
'How' will disappear from view.
Then the door to human dreamland
opens and we stumble through.

Lost now in a world of objects
where all things but live to die,
there is nothing here to worship
but the human mind and eye.
Here, our need is but to waken
to the truth of who we are.
'How' must be a Revelation,
'What', a bright and morning star.1

1  (Rev. 22:16)

(“. . . I am the root and the offspring of David, 
   and the bright and morning star.”)


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