Peace for the Soul

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Dawn

Lesson 351: Dawn


Would setting cause any harm to the sun or moon?
To you, my death seems a setting, but really it is dawn.
Does the tomb seem a prison to you? It is the liberation of the soul.
Has any seed been sown in the earth that has not one day flowered?
Why doubt? Man also is a buried seed.
What bucket would go down empty without being filled?
The spirit is like Joseph, would he complain of the well?
Keep your mouth closed over here, to open it over there
So that beyond space may thrill your song of victory.



- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

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