Recognize who you are

[Guest guest]

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Wear just enough clothes to keep warm.

Eat only enough to stop the hunger-pang.

 

And as for your mind, let it work

to recognize who you are,

and the Absolute, and that

this body will become food

for the forest crows.

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

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From " Naked Song "

Versions by Coleman Barks

Maypop, 1992