We are meant to fly and sing~

ART: PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN 

“There is a deep and humbling lesson in the way of birds. Their wings grow and stretch and span patches of air. First tentatively and then with confidence, they lift, they pump, they glide, they land.

“It seems, for birds, it is the act of flying that is the goal. True, they migrate and seek out food, but when flying, there is the sense that being aloft is their true destination.”

“Unlike birds, we confuse our time on Earth, again and again, with obsessions of where we are going—often to the point that we frustrate and stall our human ability to fly.

“We frequently tame and hush our need to love, to learn, to know the truth of spirit, until it can be assured that our efforts will take us somewhere. All these conditions and hesitations and yes-buts and what ifs turn the human journey upside down, never letting the heart, wing that it is, truly unfold.”

“Yet, without consideration or reservation, it is simply the presence of light that stirs birds to sing and lift. They do not understand concepts such as holding back or only investing if the return seems certain. In this, we are the only creatures that seek out guarantees, and in doing so, we snuff the spark that is discovery.”

“Just how often do we cripple ourselves by not letting love with all its risks teach us how to fly?

“How many times do our hearts stall because we won’t let the wingspan of our passion open us fully into our gifts?

“How frequently do we search for a song of guidance that can only come from inside us?”

“…We like the birds are meant to fly and sing—that’s all—and all our plans and schemes are twigs of nest that, once outgrown, we leave.”

~Mark Nepo from The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

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