Are you feeling confined by outdated thoughts, ideas and beliefs about who you are? We all feel the need to stretch and expand sometimes, but may feel trapped and not have a way forward. The 14th century Persian poet Hafez speaks to us across time with these lines:
Dropping Keys
The small man
Builds cages for everyone he knows
While the sage,
who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys
all night long
For the Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.
In this journey, we find ourselves with the key to our own expansion, placed lovingly in our hands by our own inner knowing. We open the lock on our own cage, which has already begun to dissolve, and step into freedom. We align with our purpose, our authenticity. Then we, too, can drop keys to all our loved ones, that they might be free as well.
'The Blessed One' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)
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