Sunday 22 January 2012

Seek out the source which shines forever. ~ Rumi

Sunlight fell upon the wall
the wall received a borrowed splendor.

Why set your heart on a piece of earth
O simple one ?

Seek out the source
which shines forever.

~ Rumi
Mathnawi II: 708-709
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books, 1996

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