How Can We Identify

Cosmic Consciousness?

Not a glimpse of enlightenment

earned by a repeated mantra.

It is a sustained awareness

of a beneficent force called God.

To know that we are a small part

of a larger reality;

that death is a small way station

on the road to eternity.

To realize evolution

can offer us a solution

to the constant quandary of why

our earthly bodies have to die.

We hope that this definition

is not merely superstition.

Walt Abbott–6-3-2010