Friday 8 September 2017

Rumi



Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundred of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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