When I start to think I’m so damn smart
I go out into the woods and sit
till I become as dumb as trees,
no wiser than the enduring grass,
no smarter than the sparrows and their nests,
the fox hiding where I cannot see,
as ignorant as the great migrating bird
who knows her way,
and the white-tailed deer that knows nothing,
nothing of cruelty or greed.
I become as simple as the clouds,
losing themselves continually.
Then I am ready to re-enter the human dance,
watching, learning, for the first time.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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