Daily Nourishment for May 9, 2024: What Brings You to Praise?
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-15 minutes
“You flood us with spirit.”
— Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori
Pause.
Take six deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale. Then read or listen to “You Wake the Dead to Life” by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori.
Prompt.
Set a timer for seven minutes and begin responding to one or more of the questions below from/inspired by Poetry Unbound Ep 23.
Examine the experience of loving a friend and go deeper with it to explore the question, “what does this say to me about what I consider to be most fundamental to the world?”
How does friendship open you to the divine?
Which specific friendships open you to the divine?
What gets in the way of your friendships?
How’s your balance of online and offline friendships?
How can you tell when it’s time to hang out with someone in person?
How do you know when it’s time to take a break from social media?
Practice.
Read this quote from Poetry Unbound Ep 23, then set a timer for seven minutes and write about how your friendships have been center points for your deepest longings and/or how your friendships have changed you. If you want more from your friendships, you can right about that, too.
“Rumi had a profound and deep and changing friendship with Shams, and I think it’s a really important thing to recognize how in Rumi’s life, a friendship, a particular friendship, was something that became the center point for his deepest yearnings: for God, for religion, for knowing what’s important in the life. Our friendships change us profoundly, and in Rumi we hear how a praise song to a friend is also a praise song to God.” —Pádraig Ó Tuama
Want More?
Listen to Poetry Unbound Ep 23.
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