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Spirituality is a scam

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By aokiPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
Spirituality is a scam
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To whom it may concern,

Spirituality is a scam.

Enlightenment is a scam.

The path to peace and stillness

is nothing but a weakling's trail.

We fail

to realize that FOCUS

is the ultimate peace,

the thing we CRAVE the most.

Spirituality is a scam,

better yet, it's the con of the century.

How can we propagate this idea

that to exist in peace

is simply to shift the focus INWARDS,

no matter what ties we have

to this material world?

Enlightenment is a scam,

there is no light out there

that's brighter than the one in here

(points to the solar plexus).

This light has always been in here,

hidden in the underbelly of deep focus,

within the walls of our conscious mind,

buried under shorter and shorter

attention spans.

The quest to oneness

has always been

just a quick U-turn

back home to where you started.

Sincerely,

wait is this a one way street?

slam poetry

About the Creator

aoki

My heart spills out through my bony fingers.

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