Why so impatient, my heart?

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Why so impatient, my heart? He who watches over birds, beasts, and insects, He who cared for you whilst you were yet in your mother's womb, Shall He not care for you now that you are come forth?

Source Kabir, Songs LXIII · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Kabîr, the mystic poet of India, He who watches over birds, beasts and insects, and who cared for you even before you were born, goes on caring for you today: impatience and worry can settle down. Today, when you feel impatience rising, look at a bird or a plant, and remember that you too are carried by that same care.

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