"All Shall Be Well"

The longer I'm around the more it settles into me how the search for, and the attainment of, awakening is one.  And how could it not be?  Truth is openly shown to our eyes.  There is nothing Buddhist or Christian or Jewish or Muslim or Sikh or Jain or Hindu or Shinto or Zoroastrian or whatever in it, save as it includes all that is Buddhist or Christian or Jewish or Muslim or Sikh or Jain or Hindu or Shinto or Zoroastrian or whatever.

Julian of Norwich (c1342-c1416) claimed to have received the revelation, "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."  That phrasing was reprised by T.S. Eliot in "Little Gidding" in several places and here, at the end:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick, now, here, now, always –
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything) 
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

"All shall be well" is not prognostication.  It is declarative fact, true from beginningless time, present, though half-heard and as yet unseen, "now, here, now, always."  

To know this we need but go through the gate that is no gate because unknown and most certainly eventually not even remembered.