Photography by clarity west

My Navajo teacher, Emerson, says that each morning we should rise to greet the sun.

Ommm shanti shanti shanti

Open our hearts to the sun, the moon, the stars. Open our hearts.

My heart is open to you creator

Let me see your glowing face in all my brothers and sisters

I want to be present, awaken me from this trance

The deeper I go 

the more I want to know

How you work

From right inside me

How you dance through my fingers all the way down to my toes

I don’t care what anybody thinks

I am you, you are me.

Hari Om Tat Sat

You teach me through so many

Even the cat who lazily goes from porch to porch and is always provided for.

Basking in your light, there is only you and me.

Presence is what I want, my heart aches.

How can I enjoy you all for myself when my family is suffering

I need you, they need you, we need you

It hurts to feel separate

I want to be one

I want to see you in every single one

I pledge to you that I will see my vision quest through

my arms flowing like butterfly wings

my graceful movements stretch my neck to the sky

and I find that I am becoming a swan

You are my lake, my opal, my jewels and my stocks and bonds

I trust in you

more than I trust in anything

in anyone

because you are all there is

and we, we are the channels.

I feel you flowing through me

I don't even know who I am or what I have to say

banish the fear, the doubt

re-arrange my heart with inner peace

breathe

In and out

one more deep breathe

In and out

Yes, now we are here

all we have to do is breathe and remember we are not alone

beautiful one.

God has you in mind always

he is never far