For today, I choose the poem Perfect Equanimity by Hafiz…when reading it, my heart softly settled down and a sense of goodness infused my whole breath…This inspiring breath connects me with the Spirit, with God, with what we call the Thing Which is Bigger than us. We all have different names for God and I trust that this Bigger, Loving Presence surrounds us all in Its goodness…

Perfect Equanimity

Look how a mirror
will reflect with perfect equanimity
all actions
before
it.

There is no act in this world
that will ever cause the mirror to look away.

There is no act in this world that will
ever make the mirror
say ‘no.’

The mirror, like perfect love, will just keep giving
of itself to all
before
it.

How did the mirror ever get like that, so polite,
so grand, so compassionate?

It watched God.

Yes, the mirror remembers the Beloved
looking into itself as the Beloved shaped existence’s heart
and the mirror’s
soul.

My eye has the nature of God.

Hafiz looks upon all with perfect equanimity,
as do my words,
dear.

My poems will never tell you no,
because the Mirror is
not like
that,

and if God ever hits you with a don’t –

He has His fingers crossed,

He is just fibbing
for your own
good.