This blog entry is an updated version of a post from early February 2008, and I thought of it again this morning . The Hafiz quote & the wisdom it conveys? Timeless.
Often, I'll hear from people who have a deep yearning for a way of being and doing and living that feels more heart-centered and soul-aligned.
All of us, at some point or another -- and perhaps more often than that -- feel separated from our inner-guidance, or guiding star.
And even if we think we 'know the answer' intellectually, sometimes (maybe even 'often'), what we think we know leads us away from our joy and 'heart-soul' path.
What we 'think' is often an inheritance from a culture in which the intellect has for too long presided without connection to (and thus the deeper wisdom of) body, spirit, soul, or wisdom.
I remember seeing a greeting card -- and later had it on a magnet on my fridge -- that said, "Don't trust anything you think."
So if we can't always (or even often) trust our mind's 'old knowing' -- that ingrained, habitual pattern of judging and deciding -- how can we know what choice, direction, action, or inaction is truly right for us?
This is different than knowing what will conform to the cultural status quo. Big difference, particularly as the energies of transformation bathe our Earth (and our minds and hearts, too).
In early 2008, while visiting Ithaca (N.Y.), I saw a quote from the Sufi poet and mystic, Hafiz.
It has, in the days and now several years since, proved a reliable guide and practice for discerning the path or option that is in alignment with my heart and wisdom, versus that of 'old mind'.
When I remember it, that is. And even then, I appreciate the reminder.
"What is real, what is unreal?
That which turns up the corners
of your mouth, trust that.
~ Hafiz
That which turns up the corners of your mouth, trust that.
Nothing else -- whether we have been taught to perceive it as 'real' or as 'unreal' -- can be truly reliable without a confirming sense from our own intuition and wisdom, which often sends us signals from (in!) our body.
If the corners of our mouths are truly and spontaneously 'turning up', and if we practice following this spontaneous response into our bodies and feel it deeply, we'll feel that the 'smile' reaches outward from our core, our hearts, and it feels that every cell in our body is smiling.
And so the corners of our mouths turn up.
This 'turning up', smiling inwardly and outwardly, may feel gentle, passionate, energetic, or quiet, but at its source, there is joy and that joy guides us.
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Lots of love,
Jamie
Jamie Walters is an energy whisperer and transformation doula, and founder & creatrix of Ivy Sea and The Feminine Mojo Projects. A respected horizon-walker, she is a guide for humane business, right livelihood, and engaged or embodied spirituality -- including the embodiment and expression of the Divine Feminine, and a 'reconnection' to your Divine Spark.
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