If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

               If you would come nearer to being,
Then whatever the experience, give thanks
For sun or rain, loss or gain, fun or pain
Give thanks.  In each is the seed of life
Thanks is to see the relation of this with that
Thanks is self-interrogation
Thanks is self-giving to an other
Thanks is to accept the self-giving of an other
Thanking is thinking: "to cause to appear to oneself"
Framing sense and notion, shaping sensibility and self.