Lovers think they are looking for each
other,
but there is only one search.
Wandering this world is wandering that,
both inside one transparent sky.
In here there is no dogma and no heresy.
the miracle of Jesus is himself,
not what he said or did about the future.
Forget the future.
I would worship someone who could do that.
On the way you may what to look back, or
not,
but if you say, there is nothing ahead,
there will be nothing there.
Stretch your arms,
and take hold of the cloth of your clothes with both hands.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Good and bad are mixed.
If you don’t have both you don’t have us.
When one of us gets lost,
he must be inside of us.
There is no place like that anywhere in the
world.
Rumi
trans by Coleman Barks from Big Red Book
