» Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Fasting (Fragments)

[bobby1933]

Fasting
by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

English version by Coleman Barks

There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire.
The fog clears, and new energy makes you
run up

Comments

[bardcat]

helpful and challenging words on fasting, a spiritual discipline of so much signficance.