Four Questions:
Who is awake and who asleep?
What is this lake that is continually
oozing back into the earth?
What can a human being offer to God?
What do we most deeply want?
The Answers:
The mind is what sleeps.
What recognizes itself
as God is awake.
This always-disappearing lake
is made of our appetites,
these movings-about,
this talking and listening.
The only offering you can make to God
is your increasing awareness.
And the last desire is
to be God in human form.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
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