Earlier this week my yoga teacher read the poem Today by Hafiz at the end of class, and it made me walk home slowly, looking at trees, flowers, dogs, squirrels and people, and just feel appreciation for life.

The poem can be found in the book The Gift:

Today 

I
Do not
Want to step so quickly
Over a beautiful line on God’s palm
As I move through the earth’s
Marketplace
Today.

I do not want to touch any object in this world
Without my eyes testifying to the truth
That everything is
My Beloved.

Something has happened
To my understanding of existence
That now makes my heart always full of wonder
And kindness.

I do not
Want to step so quickly
Over this sacred place on God’s body
That is right beneath your
Own foot

As I
Dance with
Precious life
Today.