What’s Your Shadow Look Like?
Afraid of dying, we avoid living.
We sleep a sleep of fear,
dark nightmares pulled up around our chins.
Thinking we must survive now,
we wait to live later.
But the present moment is constantly being destroyed,
swept away into the past,
taken by a thief
who leaves another.
Life is transitory.
Each day, in fact, can be our last.
So wake up,
and live in the present moment.
The thief steals only what you have kept,
not what you have spent.
What calls out in your life?
What song needs singing,
what person needs loving,
what risk invites the investment
of all of yourself?
Child, awaken.
Rise to this day.
If you love someone, tell them,
before the moment to do so
is burned in a flash.
If you have a gift,
give it before the moment
vanishes like a dream.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
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Unfolding Light
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