Find a gentle piece of earth.
Sit and be present. Sit still long.
Let the wind hold you, breathe you in and out.
Let the grasses grow up around you
and weave you into a nest.
Let your skin become soil.
Let your body sink down into the folds of fungus,
the fecund lap of earth.
Let the stream flowing by wash your feet, clean them,
rinse away the road, wash away your legs and hips.
You are a sandbank, gradually falling into the water,
becoming part of the flow.
Trees grow up through your spine,
clouds come in and out of your eyes,
whole storm fronts pass through the tabernacle of your lungs.
Allow yourself to become a branch of the great vine.
Now generations gather in you. Tribes and their tribulations,
saints and the scoundrels among them, congregate in you.
Give them time to come.
The woes of the world, and its wonders, seep into you.
And with it all—wonder of wonders, it has been so all along!—
flowing into you is the Divine, that infinite Mystery,
the Love that is the Source of all things,
the gravity that holds, the Life that issues forth in you.
Your breathing is the breathing of God.
Let it be so. Let it be so for a long time. Forever.
When you get up from this place it will come with you—
wonder of wonders, it has been so all along!—
forever.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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