Name: Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley
Duration: P00H01M37S
Description: Poem by Hafiz, from "The Gift" by Daniel Ladinsky

Cupping My Hands Like a Mountain Valley

from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty by Lama Foundation

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Poem by Hafiz, from "The Gift" by Daniel Ladinsky

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Like the way the valleys of the earth cup their
hands for light and drink,
like the way the desert opens up its sweet mouth and laughs when someone melts pearls in the sky,
and rain, rain returns like a divine lover with a
hundred wonderful gifts.
O, the words from the true Teacher bring my
mind and cells such sacred nourishment and life.

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from RUMI & HAFIZ: The Mountains Hint at Our Beauty, released May 21, 2018
Read by Habib

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Lama Foundation Taos, New Mexico

Lama Foundation is a spiritual community, educational facility, and retreat center. The birth place of "Be Here Now," by Ram Dass, and final resting place to Murshid Samuel Lewis, creator of the Dances of Universal Peace. Lama lies north of the town of Taos, New Mexico.

Designed to embrace all spiritual traditions, thousands of pilgrims from nearly all religious heritages have called Lama home. ... more