Before checking your device,
Check the news inside.
What is the internal weather like
when the wind of your breath
penetrates your cells?
What music plays today
in those innermost sensations?
Listen.
The sacred that you are
can be felt with your attention.
Descend from your head
into your heart
A short elevator ride down
and you enter another dimension.
Live from there.
Seek to enter the relational field
from that mysterious, refined
space where an orchestra is gathering
to play your song.
Become a coverless, faceless book
One without images
or self-assertions,
Or opinions, and positions
Read the wordless pages of
your immediate experience.
Ask yourself
What are you?
(Not the machine
Not even the ghost in the machine)
Yes, your past haunts you
But is not you.
Listen now.
The symphony has begun.
Attend to the notes
playing in the dark and vast chamber
of your heart.
Tend to your very being.
Now.
And now.
Julia Dengel
Hesperus
