Three days facebook free.  It feels FREEING, empowering, wonderful.  I do not miss John Doe posting about his gym workouts or Jane Doe posting about her baby and her empowerment seminar she’s holding, or things people are complaining about or feel the need to share publicly.

I had a thought today as I was driving to the laundromat, thinking I only was going to do laundry because my apartment was taken over with several housemates friends, so much energy, thought, shallow words.. I needed to get out (it felt). As I was driving to the laundromat I realized, “this is why great saints, sages, and yogis, need so much time alone and they go off in the woods or to the mountains to meditate… the great silence and stillness gives their inner voice, gives God, the chance to BE HEARD.  It gives them access to THEIR heart, THEIR truth, THEIR words… not their friends, or societies”.

That is why I am hibernating.  Using silence and aloneness to transcend the labels I feel have been placed on me, to shatter what is right and wrong, what I should be doing, how I should be feeling, etc, and just live how feels good to me.  Even the term human being is soooo confining.  It is getting increasingly harder for me to be in a conversation with people who do not understand the limitations of words, and who do not even have a glimpse/idea of who they really are.  This world is only the surface.

Bring me the people who thank God before they eat, Bring me the people who thank God when they wake up, When they go to sleep, when they see a pretty flower, or experience some heartache, or re-see their fingers as if it was the first time and it brings them to tears… Bring me the people who drop in to the heartspace before speaking.

Like Hafiz.  This morning reading a Hafiz poem from my “A Year with Hafiz” book I received from my brother, Jeff, in 2012 – I started crying, bowed my head, shut my eyes, forehead to the page and thanked Hafiz from the bottom of my heart for being someone who wrote from the space of Knowing, God… even so many years ago! HOW DID HE DO IT.  Left a trail for anyone seeking to follow… absolutely mind-blowing.

Words are made up, remember. Human beings made them up and forgot we made it all up. Often, I like to practice looking around me to all the ‘things’ in the room and pretending none of it has been named.  It just IS.  Expands my heart, expands my mind, expands my being.