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Freeing your Soul’s Authenticity from Ego with Lalla’s Poetry

Human on sandbar in the midst of a lake illustrating metaphor of authenticity and ego

Back in the fourteenth century, the beloved Kashmiri mystic poet Lalla wrote about the challenge of being authentically human in the face of ego. These poems of hers I’ll share with you are for inspiration and teaching, as relevant now as 700 years ago. Our inner essence or soul’s authenticity is what makes us human. […]