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# That Innate Health feeling
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/that-innate-health-feeling/
- Published: 2026-09-27T06:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T06:00:34.000Z
- Description: A true Sunday Spiritual slowdown, with our favourite poet 🧡
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Hafiz, Writing, TRUE NATURE, Sunday Spiritual, Presence, Poetry, Thought realisation, Metaphor, Attention

Let's have a bit of a Sunday slowdown, shall we?

One of my favourite books—[*A Year with Hafiz*](https://www.danielladinsky.com/books?ref=gilespcroft.com)—was calling to me from my shelf (maybe because the year is slowly waning, and it's likely I'll be drawn to pen another [12 Days of Hafiz](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/12-days-of-hafiz/) over the holidays).

Anyway, I opened it to this beauty:

> ***WHERE ONCE I SANG***

> *It gently faded,* 
> *All I once believed in.* 
> *But I am glad* 
> *There is a world that seems* 
> *To go on* 
> *Where I once sang.*

> *All I ever knew* 
> *Is still a part of me,* 
> *And will be forever.*

> *All I ever knew is like a little mouse* 
> *Living in a tiny hole* 
> *In a palace I have become.*

> *Since God gave me the key* 
> *To Myself,* 
> *I know the movements* 
> *Of every limb, fin and leaf.* 
> *I could tell you how many hairs* 
> *Exist on every creature on earth.*

> *Sometimes it* 
> *(That sweet little rodent)* 
> *Comes out and we look* 
> *At each other,*

> *And I even talk to that* 
> *Wondrous world* 
> *Where once I lived,* 
> *As I am doing* 
> *Right now.*

> ***\~ Hafiz***

©️

"Where I Once Sang" from **A Year with Hafiz*, Daniel Ladinsky, copyright 2011\. [www.danielladinsky.com](http://www.danielladinsky.com/?ref=gilespcroft.com). Printed with permission.

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Was there ever a better description of seeing through the bleatings of the mind, and relaxing back into that Innate Health feeling?

I love the smell of pure presence in the morning.

🧡

Giles

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