Tuesday, November 15, 2005

THESE SPIRITUAL WINDOW SHOPPERS

These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Where did you go? "Nowhere."
What did you have to eat? "Nothing much."

Even if you don't know what you want,
buy _something,_ to be part of the exchanging flow.

Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

Rumi, 'We Are Three', Mathnawi VI, 831-845

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read, I appreciate, I am open, I keep dissolving old ways of holding, believing, "knowing" what I want, I feel a deep center of calm in the not knowing this evening, and feel unexpected blessings flowing from the strange events we have recently experienced together as we continue to move into the unknown and support each other on the way. I love you. E.