That Innate Health feeling

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

One of my favourite books—A Year with Hafiz—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 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

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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