A little bit of Sufi

[Guest guest]

You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth--

both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it--and

until you are like the clouds--they shade all things--and

until you are like the rain--it waters all things, whether

it loves them or not.

 

Bayazid Bistami

 

 

The first step is to say " God " , and nothing else;

the second is intimacy, and the third is to burn.

 

Attar

 

 

I bow to God in gratitude.

And I find the moon is also busy

Doing the same.

 

I bow to God in great happiness,

And I learn from where the suns

And the children

And my heart

All borrow their Light.

 

I bow to the Friend in deep reverence

And discover a marvelous secret carried in the air:

 

This whole Universe is just as blessed

and divinely crazed as I,

and just as lost in the Wonderful Holy Dance.

 

My dear,

After such a long, long journey,

God has made another soul

Free!

 

 

Hafix