Thursday 29 December 2011

Does happiness reflect in your face from the wine of the true religion ? by Rumi

Does happiness reflect in your face
from the wine of the true religion ?

Where is your generous hand
if you've beheld 
the Ocean of Abundance ?

The one who sees the River
doesn't grudge water to the thirsty,

Especially the one
who has beheld that Sea
and those mighty Clouds.

~ Rumi
Mathnawi VI: 804-805
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996

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