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Thoughtful
Friend - © Tony R. Wagstaff, Photographer
A beauty
calls to us, a wholeness that we know exists.
The Sufis
call this "the voice of the beloved."
We are
born into this world with the song in our ears,
yet
we may first come to know it by its absence.
When we live
without connectedness, without an illumination of spirit,
we can
feel in ourselves the deep longing of a lost child,
a subtle
longing as though we know something essential is missing,
something
that dances at the edge of our vision,
always
with us like the air we forget until the wind blows.
Yet it
is this elusive spirit which holds us completely, which nourishes
the heart,
summoning
us toward our search for what life is all about.
We
are pulled to return to our true nature, to our wise and knowing
heart.
Jack
Kornfield
Excerpted
from
Awakening the Sacred
Longing
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