With The Secret Within Us All The Time

Bill Evans Trio: How Deep is the Ocean

There is an old story
from the Eastern tradition
that says that
when the gods
created the universe,
they found a place
for everything
but the truth,
and this created
a problem,
because the gods
did not want this wisdom
discovered right away.
One of the gods suggested
the top of the highest mountain,
another the farthest star,
a third spoke up for
the dark side of the moon,
and another for the bottom
of the deepest ocean.
Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart.
In that way, we would search for it all over the universe,
with the secret within us all the time.
--Stephen Kendrick
Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes