Set Out Now

Lesson 358: Set Out Now

Set out now, while you're strong, on the heart's vast plain:
You'll never discover joy on the plain of the body.
The heart's the only house of safety, my friends:
It has fountains, and rose gardens within rose gardens.
Turn to the heart and go forward, travelers of the night;
there's where you'll find trees and streams of living water.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)