From the recording The Practice of Presence
Lyrics
Not every heart
will find the same way home.
Some learn by giving.
Some by asking why.
Some find their way through love.
Some through the quiet of the mind.
I’ve seen devotion in the smallest things,
in hands that give and ask for nothing back.
No need to leave a name upon the offering,
no need to know where every road will lead.
And I’ve heard wisdom in a question
that no answer could contain.
The more I learned to look beneath the surface,
the less I needed certainty to stay.
One through the hands.
One through the mind.
One through the heart.
One through the silence.
Different ways of turning
toward the light.
Four roads, one mountain,
four ways beneath an open sky.
A hand that serves, a mind that seeks,
a heart that loves, a soul that learns to quiet.
Four roads, one mountain,
no need to leave the others behind.
What if the way is not the only way,
and every road has something to reveal
Bhakti is the heart laid open,
love that asks for nothing in return.
Not a need to hold the sacred,
but a willingness to let devotion burn.
Raja is the patient practice,
bringing scattered senses into line.
Not a battle with the thinking,
just the art of giving stillness time.
And there are days when understanding
cannot tell me what to do.
When the answer is an act of kindness,
or a moment spent in quiet truth.
Some things we learn by living.
Some things we learn by letting go.
Some things the heart discovers
before the mind can know.
Four roads, one mountain,
four ways beneath an open sky.
A hand that serves, a mind that seeks,
a heart that loves, a soul that learns to quiet.
Four roads, one mountain,
no need to leave the others behind.
What if the way is not the only way,
and every road has something to reveal?
Karma —
let the work become the offering.
Jnana —
let the question lead me through.
Bhakti —
let the heart be moved by something
it cannot hold or prove.
Raja —
let attention settle gently,
until the space between my thoughts
becomes a place to rest.
I used to think that finding truth
meant choosing where to stand,
drawing lines between the pathways,
holding tightly to a plan.
But a life is never lived
through only one part of the soul.
There are moments made for giving,
moments made for asking why,
moments when the heart must open,
moments when the mind grows quiet.
And none of them must stand alone.
Four roads, one mountain,
four ways beneath an endless sky.
Let the hands be filled with purpose,
let the mind learn how to see,
let the heart remain wide open,
let the silence set it free.
Four roads, one mountain,
different ways to live what we believe.
Not every heart will walk the same road,
but every road can teach us how to be.
Karma — in the giving.
Jnana — in the seeing.
Bhakti — in the loving.
Raja — in the stillness.
Hands.
Mind.
Heart.
Awareness.
Not every heart
will find the same way home.
And maybe
that is what makes the mountain
beautiful.

