Guest guest Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 - Joseph Riley Hafiz LaughterWhat is laughter? What is laughter?It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!It is the sun poking its sweet head outFrom behind a cloudYou have been carrying too long,Veiling your eyes and heart.It is Light breaking ground for a great StructureThat is your Real body - called Truth.It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flightTo embrace everyone and everything in this world.Laughter is the polestarHeld in the sky by our Beloved,Who eternally says,"Yes, dear ones, come this way,Come this way towards Me and Love!Come with your tender mouths movingAnd your beautiful tongues conducting songsAnd with your movements - your magic movementsOf hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!Know that to God's Eye,All movement is a Wondrous Language,And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"O what is laughter, Hafiz?What is this precious love and laughterBudding in our hearts?It is the glorious soundOf a soul waking up!("I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky; original presentation by David Williamson) Attachment: (image/jpeg) Laughter.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (audio/mid) waterfal.mid [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2001 Report Share Posted November 19, 2001 Absolutely beautiful Glo... Thank you for sharing this Lynette - Gloria Lee NDS ; HS Monday, November 19, 2001 10:32 AM [Hafiz] Laughter - Joseph Riley Hafiz LaughterWhat is laughter? What is laughter?It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!It is the sun poking its sweet head outFrom behind a cloudYou have been carrying too long,Veiling your eyes and heart.It is Light breaking ground for a great StructureThat is your Real body - called Truth.It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flightTo embrace everyone and everything in this world.Laughter is the polestarHeld in the sky by our Beloved,Who eternally says,"Yes, dear ones, come this way,Come this way towards Me and Love!Come with your tender mouths movingAnd your beautiful tongues conducting songsAnd with your movements - your magic movementsOf hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!Know that to God's Eye,All movement is a Wondrous Language,And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"O what is laughter, Hafiz?What is this precious love and laughterBudding in our hearts?It is the glorious soundOf a soul waking up!("I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky; original presentation by David Williamson)/join All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.Your use of is subject to the Attachment: (image/jpeg) Laughter.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (audio/mid) waterfal.mid [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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