One of my favorite Rumi poems (translated by Coleman Barks – Like This)
Yesterday at dawn, my Friend said,
How long will this unconsciousness go on?
You fill yourself with the sharp pain of Love,
rather than its fulfillment.I said, “But I can’t get to You!
You are the whole dark night,
and I am a single candle.
My life is upsidedown
because of You!”The Friend replied, I am your deepest being.
Quit talking about wanting Me!I said, “Then what is this restlessness?”
The Friend, Does a drop
stay still in the Ocean?
Move with the Entirety, and
with the tiniest particular.
Be the moisture in an oyster
that helps to form one pearl.
Oyster = ego shell
Moisture = human vulnerability
Pearl = real human being
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