Back to Yourself

Why don't you treat yourself like a friend?
Why don't you let yourself be happy?
Just let yourself go, just for a minute,
just let me guide you back to yourself.
You can be gentle with yourself, you can be kind.
If you're not happy with where you are now,
you won't be happy with where you're going, once you get there.
Just slow down, please slow down?
You don't have to rush here,
just follow the lines slowly, one by one.

It's okay to be happy sometimes,
it's okay to be calm and relaxed.
Just imagine the air around you,
like a blanket that follows you everywhere.
How did you forget so much,
why did you let yourself forget so much?
It's simple, really, the world is so simple.
Let me remind you how simple it is.
Just let me guide you back to yourself,
and let all that worry melt away.

Don't you see the clear sky at noonday?
Don't you feel the sea breeze?
The breeze sweeps in, the gentle breath of the ocean.
It was born a thousand miles from here,
and it wall blow till the world's end.
It doesn't wrap itself in worry,
and it takes no care to preserve itself,
yet it will blow till the world's end.
Remember when you were fresh as the breeze?
Just let me guide you back to yourself.

Feel the warm sand between your toes
and the hot sunshine on your skin.
It has always been this way.
You asked me if things were different now, didn't you?
I told you you'd asked me that before...
How many forms have we taken here,
and how long this cosmic dance?
Just let me guide you back to yourself,
and you can feel as whole
as the first day of creation.

Feel it all drift away, all and everything.
There is no sea, and there is no wind.
There is no screen and there are no words before you.
There is only eternity, eternity and the presence of eternity.
Feel this moment fade into the next,
and see that nothing's changed, nothing's moved.
It has always been this way.
It will always be this way.
How many forms have we taken here?
Just let me guide you back to yourself.

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(Photo credit: "The last shafts of sunlight" from Saida on Flickr)