Happy New Year!
Let’s begin our 2020 together with one of my favorite quotes from the poet Hafiz, who said:
“The words we speak become the house we live in.”
I absolutely love that saying, and remind myself of it often. The phrase evokes an image in my head of a house built of actual language. I imagine words stacked atop one another, making walls of thick, inky, overlapping lines. I see not just single words among the fray, but whole sentences and phrases, too.
Our words, says Hafiz, become a sort of home — a spiritual residence . . .
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