Awake, my dear.

Be kind to your sleeping heart.

Take it out into the vast fields

of light

and let it breathe.

~Hafiz

a winding down life….

inquiry for today~ and a resting place for your heart…

this subtle light….

When we are alone on a starlit night,

when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn

descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat;

when we see children in a moment when they are really children,

when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho,

we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash-

at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values,

the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident,

all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.

~Thomas Merton