Don’t Die Again – June 19, 2019
“I am a man who knows the ten thousand positions of Divine love.I can tell by the light in your eyes that you are still most familiar with the few earthly ones, but would not a good father instruct all his heirs toward that path that will someday deeply satisfy?This world is a treacherous place […]
The Gift – June 18, 2019
“Our union is like this: You feel cold so I reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet. A hunger comes into your body so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes. You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance, I quickly kneel at your side offering you this whole […]
It Felt Love – June 17, 2019
Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz was a 14th century Persian Sufi master, prophet, mystic, and enlightened teacher who wrote love songs of God, stretching us to the edges of our understanding and beyond, bringing the treasures born of falling in love with the Divine. The keepers of orthodoxy hated him, causing him and his followers to often […]
Used to Be – Feb. 1, 2019
It used to beThat when I would wake in the morningI could with confidence say, “What am ‘I’ going to do?”That was before the seed cracked open.Now Hafiz is certain:There are two of us housed in this bodyDoing the shopping together in the market andTickling each other while fixing the evening’s food.Now when I awake […]
