Rebecca holds degrees from Cornell (M.F.A., creative writing) and Princeton (Ph.D., philosophy) and works as a writer and researcher, with several books published, including two books on spiritual philosophy and practice: The Insights of Higher Awareness and Ego and the Spiritual Self. In addition, she has published several collections of Haiku.

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Rebecca Lilly

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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">Exploring untruth </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Isn’t enough; in truth, it </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Must be discovered</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">~</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">Questioning: a means </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">To deliver you back to </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Yourself, to meaning</span></h5>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">Each thing once seen is </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Itself, without split image: </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">That stillness perceived</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">~</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">Knowing, rather than </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Knowing about; listening </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">To silence, not sound</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">~</span></h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;">The awakened moves </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Towards the unawakened; light </span><br>
<span style="color: #808080;">Illumines the shade</span></h5>
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<h5>Haiku poetry by REBECCA LILLY</h5>
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