This has meant so much to me recently
ever since it was posted in dailyrumi .
By God, don't linger
in any spiritual benefit you have gained,
but yearn for more-like one suffering from illness
whose thirst for water is never quenched.
This Divine Court is the Plane of the Infinite.
Leave the seat of honor behind;
let the Way be your seat of honor.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
-- Mathnawi II: 1960-1961
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
This, The Way of the Bodhisattva, The Way of a Pilgrim, and a new sociopolitical viewpoint have all sort of collided and I feel, as Josh so eloquently put it, like my entire life makes sense somehow. I'm in a whole new direction, a turn of the plot that my every page has brought me to up til this point.
By God, don't linger
in any spiritual benefit you have gained,
but yearn for more-like one suffering from illness
whose thirst for water is never quenched.
This Divine Court is the Plane of the Infinite.
Leave the seat of honor behind;
let the Way be your seat of honor.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
-- Mathnawi II: 1960-1961
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
This, The Way of the Bodhisattva, The Way of a Pilgrim, and a new sociopolitical viewpoint have all sort of collided and I feel, as Josh so eloquently put it, like my entire life makes sense somehow. I'm in a whole new direction, a turn of the plot that my every page has brought me to up til this point.