Lalla...

Wear just enough clothes to keep warm.

Eat only enough to stop the hunger-pang.

And as for your mind,

let it work
to recognize who you are,

and the Absolute,

and that
this body will become food
for the forest crows.

- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop, 1992