Today, on Live Awake, accessing the sacred life within you.

I'm going to start out with another poem from Hafiz.

You don't have to act crazy anymore.

We all know you're good at that.

Now retire my dear, from all that hard work you do, of bringing pain to your sweet eyes

and heart.

Look in a clear mountain mirror.

See the beautiful ancient warrior and the divine elements you always carry inside that

infuse this universe with sacred life so long ago and join you eternally with all existence.

I often forget I am a human being infused with sacred life.

I often forget to look upon myself as a thing of beauty, to take time away from my doing

and becoming to simply sit and look in a clear mountain mirror at the divine elements

I always carry inside.

I am learning though, just as you are, to return, to stop reaching away, to stop grabbing

and rushing to some future me and moment.

I am learning just as you are to lean into the beauty of my being.

In conscious ways I am awakening myself to the magnificence and simplicity of who I am,

who we all are.

I like you to close your eyes now and just get comfortable.

Long straight spine but keeping soft around your heart and just rest as you are.

Finding relief at not having to do anything in this moment.

Being down beside you, your individual worlds and worries.

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