23 September 2012

Upon the First Full Day of Autumn


Deliberation II

                               Constant slow movement teaches us
                               to keep working like a small creek
                               that stays clear, that does not stagnate,
                               but finds a way through numerous
                               details, deliberately.

                               Deliberation is born of joy
                               like  a bird from an egg.

                               Birds do not resemble eggs.
                               Think how different the hatching out is.

                               A white leathery snake egg, a sparrow's egg,
                               a quince seed, an appple seed.
                               Very different things look similar at one stage.

                                These leaves, our bodily personalities,
                                seem identical, but the globe
                                of soul fruit we make,
                                each is elaborately
                                unique.


                                                              ~Rumi

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