“If you know how to listen, everybody is the Guru.”

I recently came across this quote from Ram Dass (while scanning through the pages of his awesome Be Here Now during a visit with an old friend), and it reminded me of the value of constantly remaining open to my immediate environment’s influence, of constantly letting go of what I know in order to receive what’s New.

And today, in an unexpected email, the sender shared with me a link to a reading by Charles Bukowski of his poem Bluebird. The email sender and the poem are both my “Guru” (guide, teacher, illuminator) in this moment if I am willing to listen, and I’d now like to get out of the way in order to pass the poem on to you:

There is a bluebird

in my heart,

and it wants

to get out…

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