How Can We Find a Wizard in
Oz?
Wizards are necessary because we need to find someone to help us find ourselves when we are lost. Most wizards have been lost themselves, and have never forgotten the frightening, cold, homesick feeling that “lost” hollows out inside us, and they always remember that safe, warm, loving feeling that “found” fills the hole with. Wizards recall their change from “lost” to “found” so well that they choose to live in Oz forever, or at least just for today, so that other lost people will have someone to seek in that magical land, who loves them so much—even if they are total strangers—that they will have a new, kind and loving friend to help them before they leave for home.
Yet wizards themselves are sometimes lonely, precisely because their visitors always leave Oz for Somewhere Else That Is Very Important. But because wizards have big hearts (and big hurts), and need the “lostest” people of all to love, Oz is the best place for wizards to live. Everyone who is lost eventually, somehow, some way, sets off to see a wizard, and be healed by him and heal him, too. There are many conversations in Oz!
If you feel lost and lonely and despairing and know that you are the most miserable person in the world, remember that there are many wizards in Oz. And because Oz is everywhere, there may be a wizard nearby. You may be able to see the wizard, who will smile a lot and look very ordinary and occasionally muddle around in a dithery sort of way, and may smell quietly fragrant. Or, you may have to set off on a long and arduous journey to find a special wizard who is Just Right For You.
When you find your special,
kind, gentle and loving wizard, she or he will help you. This is a Law of Oz.
And when you leave, you will know that no one among us has ever left Oz, but that
we have all just been confused. We usually mistake the place we find ourselves
for any of those million-and-one places we think cannot possibly be Oz. They
seem too terrible to be good for us. But we are always in Oz, because Oz is
always in us.
Oz is a magical land, full of
love, Light and healing. If we seek it, we will find it, for, you see…
Oz is never lost.
That is the Last Law of Oz.