Feeling one’s way into flower

The Easter lily opens up in “sensuous” bloom.

Re-connecting to Earth requires more than just looking at lily and sensing beyond the shallow essence of “purity, innocence, virtue, hope and re-birth”. Instead, look deeply into the flower and see it for what it is: a place of delicate fertility.

Lightly brush up against it with your forehead, cheeks and neck.

Put your nose next to the stamen and pistil and and let the pollen tickle you while it decorates the end of your nose. All the while breath in it’s soft fragrance.

Now, you’re ready to have a Georgia O’Keeffe understanding of flower.

White Flower on Red Earth #1

The path to embodying the sacred requires the animal senses within your thinking humanness to be let free.

Arguments of the Wise

Books and reading
don’t make up
the Beloved’s path.

Reason doesn’t lead
to the Plain of Truth.

In the Land of Knowledge,
the arguments of the wise
are like well-worn pathways —
muddy trails
left behind
by wild beasts.

Husayn Mu’min Yazdi