A Thought . . .

Its been quite here after a very busy time, and it is amazing to watch the amount of thoughts that can creep into the silence when one isn’t watching, but that’s just another thought šŸ™‚

"Birthing" painting by Claudia Dose

“Birthing” by Claudia Dose

When you see that from a thought
every craft in the world arises and subsistsā€”
that houses and palaces and cities,
mountains and plains and rivers,
earth and ocean as well as sun and sky,
derive their life from it as fish from the seaā€”
then why in your foolishness, O blind one,
does the body seem to you a Solomon,
and thought only as an ant?

 

sourceĀ Rumi,Ā Mathnawi, II:1034-1037

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
“Rumi: Daylight”
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of YahyĆ” Monastra





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