<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sufi life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pen in hand, and pensive…<br>sitting by the open window, <br>the curtains moving gently in the breeze, <br>listening to the spontaneous liveliness<br>of the fountain whose joyful drops<br>the sunlight plays with as they fall; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">catching the scent of a rose<br>which comes and goes to the nostrils<br>as if it has its own intentions; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching the sunlight moving round<br>the courtyard garden; <br>remembering with an inward stirring, <br>it’s the earth which moves…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">words passing through the mind; <br>in this golden stillness, all things<br>are a metaphor for all else; <br>it’s beyond the tender tying<br>into lines of poetry; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">just a light touch, these words; <br>nothing to prove; no-one to convince; <br>more like a hand unfolded towards life, <br>an acknowledgement; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as when you join the dervishes in turning, <br>and as the mind-free centre grows more strong, <br>more established (for this centre holds) , <br>the thoughts spin off…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the poem too, spins off: <br>one arm upward which remembers, <br>palm open to receive in wonder; <br>one arm outward, palm open, offering all to all; <br>take it, while it’s warm with life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459968" data-title="A Sufi life de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Pen in hand, and pensive… sitting by the open window, the curtains moving gently in the breeze, listening to the spontaneous liveliness of the fountain whose joyful drops the sunlight plays with as they fall; catching the scent of a rose whi..."></div> </div> </div>

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