No less than the panther in the woods
or the beetles chewing in your garden,
you are moved by hunger,
a thousand little cravings
for what we may call happiness
or something else, but each of them
an echo of the one true longing:
for God and nothing else.
Yet, friend, we desire what we already have:
you are the dear Beloved’s dear beloved one.
Let that ease your wild, insatiable longing.
Or, if you have none,
let that stir up your wild, insatiable longing.
Satisfy your appetite in service or solitude,
at the feet of a master or the foot of your bed,
on your prayer mat with the throng
or silently scrubbing the bathroom floor.
Enter the temple of your belovedness,
and find your siblings there as well.
Sharpen your hunger for the One,
and the Oneness
and you and all the world
shall be satisfied.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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