Everything That You Do Is Sacred

Photo of me in Taos, New Mexico...one of my favorite places on earth.  Photo taken by Kevin Moul

It's so easy (though painful) to be hard on ourselves.  It's so easy to feel pulled in dozens of directions all at once, to feel overwhelmed and not enough, to drive ourselves utterly berserk with second-guessing & indecision.  It's so easy to feel like we should be doing that when we're doing this.

But what if, as Hafiz so eloquently asks, what if we stopped throwing sticks at our own heart?  What if we stopped pushing against ourselves, stopped fighting and started to believe that every thought and action, every dream and vision is sacred?  In other words, what if, rather than pushing against, we decided to meet it all with gentleness, compassion---love?

Can you imagine the difference?

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Now is the Time
By Hafiz

Now is the time to know

That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider

A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand

That all your ideas of right and wrong

Were just a child's training wheels

To be laid aside

When you finally live

With veracity

And love.

My dear, please tell me,

Why do you still

Throw sticks at your heart

And God?

What is it in that sweet voice inside

That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know

That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time for you to compute the impossibility

That there is anything

But Grace.

Now is the season to know

That everything you do

Is sacred.