Prayer

Lesson 314: Prayer

Pray, pray always: Prayer and adoration are your breath.
If your breathing stops a moment, your life will end.
The soul in its exile longs for its kingdom beyond space –
Why does its animal half feed so long in fields of death?
Your essential soul is noble; how long will you look in darkness?
You are the royal eagle: Listen, the King is whistling for you.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)