THERE IS A COMMUNITY OF SPIRIT # RUMI

There is a community of Spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes,
to see with the Other Eye.

Open your hands,
if you want to be held.

Consider what you've been doing!
Why do you stay with such a mean spirited
and dangerous partner?

For the security of having food, admit it!
Here's a better arrangement: give up this life,
and get a hunderd new lives.
Sit down in this circle

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the Sheperd's Love filling you.

At night, your Beloved wanders.
Don't take painkillers.

Tonight, no consolations.
And don't eat.

Close your mouth against food.
Taste the Lover's mouth in yours.

You moan," but she left me. He left me."
Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.
Think of Who Created Thought!

Why do you stay in prison
when the door is wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in Silence.

Flow down and down in always,
widening rings of Being.

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