Thursday 26 January 2012

Seek the spirit don't set your heart on bones. ~ Rumi

Little by little 
God takes away human beauty:

Little by little 
the sapling withers.

Go, recite 
"To whomever We give a length of days,
We also cause them to decline."

Seek the spirit
don't set your heart on bones.

~ Rumi 
Mathnawi, II:714-715
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Rumi: Daylight
Threshold Books, 1994

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