Each Atom Sings

Lesson 284: Each Atom Sings

Diamond becomes stone before You, lions small flowers;
The sun before You shrinks tinier than any atom.
In You, this whole world blazes now like Mount Sinai,
Each of its atoms foams over with fire-water
Each soul becomes Moses lost in the Vision of God.
Each creature is soldered to You and its own Origin,
Laughing at Nothingness and clapping its own miracle.
Each leaf opens fresh and bright, each atom sings it discovery:
"Resignation is the key to happiness,
Grace is the door to the peace beyond the mind."

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)