“Leave the familiar for a while,” writes Hafiz. “Let your senses and bodies stretch out like a welcomed season onto the meadows and shores and hills….Greet Yourself in your thousand other forms”

Such an empowering message this morning – one which marks the urgency in our being.

That is to say:

Each day we are gifted a myriad of opportunities to ‘leave the familiar behind’ – to take the ultimate risk, to embrace the thrill of a life fully lived.

And, yet…

Here we stand precarious of our journey, too afraid to venture forward another step.

We are frozen in this space of never knowing what comes next. And, so we sit complacent – yet horribly depressed.

But, with every journey there is a fear, a risk – a wondering of “will I ever make it home again?”

Until we find ‘courage enough’ to greet ourselves in one of those thousand other forms.

From the poet, Hafiz – “Hemispheres”; I do hope you’ll enjoy.

Much love, dears – and namaste.

<3

Hemispheres by Hafiz

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.