Take a moment this evening
before you sleep
to remember death,
your constant companion
on the heartbeat's
pilgrim path.
Make friends, make friends.
Take a moment each morning
as you rise to remember
how limitless you are
before the day’s
first thought.
Recall how you came here
from the kingdom
of gratitude, not want;
how wild, abundant,
and spacious the night
inside you,
the sparkling silence
in every breath,
charging your body
with stars;
how uncharted
the green dominion
of your beauty -
not the mountaintops,
for they are small -
but the valleys,
those generous
earthen furrows
where your roots
grow downward and mingle
with mine.
From my book, Strangers & Pilgrims.
Photo: Took this on one of my favorite hikes.
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