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Four Questions:

 

Who is awake and who asleep?

 

What is this lake that is continually

oozing back into the earth?

 

What can a human being offer to God?

 

What do we most deeply want?

 

The Answers:

 

The mind is what sleeps.

What recognizes itself

as God is awake.

 

This always-disappearing lake

is made of our appetites,

these movings-about,

this talking and listening.

 

The only offering you can make to God

is your increasing awareness.

 

And the last desire is

to be God in human form.

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

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From " Naked Song "

Versions by Coleman Barks

Maypop, 1992

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