Tuesday, March 22, 2005

A Community of the Spirit (Rumi)

There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,
if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover's mouth in yours.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Think of who created thought!

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

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