Morning Blessings

 

These are the blessings
we learn from living in the world:
that we wake in the morning,
having traveled the dreaming place,
ready to act again.

 

These are the blessings
we learn from living in the world:
how wonderful is the human body
with its openings and hollows,
places to take things in,
places to let things out,
places to hold things.
That if one them were closed
when it should be open,
or open when it should be closed,
we would shrivel up and die.
How wonderful is the human body
that knows how to heal.

 

These are the blessings
we learn from living in the world:
that water cleanses the body
and teaches us to value simplicity.

 

These are the blessings
we learn from living in the world:
that loving other people
is loving ourselves.