Find the Real World

Lesson 156: Find the Real World

Find the real world, give it endlessly away
Grow rich, fling gold to all who ask
Live at the empty heart of Paradox
I'll dance there with you, cheek to cheek
Your Dawn in me…I'm drunk, stammering –
A thousand thousand words go dark –
Lightnings are dark – to us – to this:
Identity's boundless worlds-wide blaze.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)