Stretching Towards The Light

Just like stretching one’s muscles makes

those muscles stronger, 

Stretching one’s mind makes one’s mind

more expansive. 

And just like stretching one’s muscles entails discomfort, as they had been underused, 

So too, there is discomfort when stretching one’s mind beyond what it currently grasps. 

Just like the body gets stronger through the discomfort of physical stretching, 

Only by enduring the discomfort of stretching one’s mind beyond what it thinks it knows, 

Can any mind open far enough to accept what it truly wants; 

 the true wisdom that produces only peace.