Wednesday 20 July 2011

Helpless, Dumbfounded

I love Rumi. I just do. Here's why:

Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
to gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty,
If we say that we can, we're lying.
If we say No, we don't see it,
That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.

4 comments:

  1. I know, right? So full of pithy, readily applicable wisdom...

    Gosh, I'm rarely sure of anything--and when I am, I'm usually wrong. Pfffft! :P

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  2. Good for you. Neither am I. In fact, I exist in a cloud of uncertainty, looking behind, feeling ahead...stagger, stagger, stagger...

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  3. Like an electron caught in a probability cloud about the nucleus of an atom, ever knowing where it is or where it's going but never both... ;-)

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  4. Um yeah, like that. (I have no idea what you just said. I'm just nodding helplessly)

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