I love this message from Hafiz. It so simply and eloquently points to the power and beauty of being who we truly are – which is love.

Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that ~
it lights the whole world.

But how do we experience who we truly are?  I find that meditation is one of the most helpful and powerful tools for this.  I have been working with Adyashanti’s suggestion that we take time to sit quietly, look deep within and ask with great sincerity, “What am I?”  It is what I call an open-ended question because the goal is not to find an answer, but rather to let go of pre-conceived ideas so the truth of who we are can emerge in our consciousness.