Sea of Splendor

Lesson 219: Sea of Splendor

How long will you be obsessed with forms?
How long will your souls doze in externals?
All the lions' heads were bowed
When God blessed the dog of the Companions –
What did his manginess and ugliness matter
When his spirit was plunged in a Sea of Splendor?

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)