"Today, Another Universe" by Jane Hirshfield

Today, inspiration comes from Maria Popova's glorious site "Brain Pickings."

I'll simply quote her brilliant self:

"Few search-artists have served as greater agents of transmutation than Jane Hirshfield a poet of optimism and of lucidity, a champion of science and an ordained Buddhist, a poet who could write So few grains of happiness / measured against all the dark / and still the scales balance, a poet who can balance and steady us against those times when we go to sleep in one world and...