Name: I Know the Way You Can Get
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: Poem by Hafiz, from "I Heard God Laughing" by Daniel Ladinsky

I Know the Way You Can Get

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

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Poem by Hafiz, from "I Heard God Laughing" by Daniel Ladinsky

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I know the way you can get when you have not
had a drink of Love.
Your face hardens, your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned about a strange look
that appears in your eyes, which even begins to
worry your own mirror and nose.
Squirrels and birds sense your sadness and call
an important conference in a tall tree.
They decide which secret code to chant to help
your mind and soul.
Even angels fear that brand of madness that arrays
itself against the world and throws sharp stones
and spears into the innocent and into one’s self.
O, I know the way you can get if you have not
been out drinking Love:
You might rip apart every sentence your friends
and teachers say, looking for hidden clauses.
You might weigh every word on a scale like a
dead fish.
You might pull out a ruler to measure, from every
angle in your darkness, the beautiful dimensions
of a heart you once trusted.
I know the way you can get if you have not had
a drink of from Love’s hands.
That is why all the Great Ones speak of the vital
need to keep remembering God,
so you will come to know and see Him as being
so playful and wanting, just wanting to help.
That is why Hafiz says: bring your cup near me,
for I am a sweet old vagabond, with an infinite
leaking barrel of light and laughter and truth that
the Beloved has tied to my back.
Dear one, indeed, please bring your heart near
me. For all I care about is quenching your thirst
for freedom!
All a sane man can ever care about is giving Love!

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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