<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460070" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the spirit of Rumi - 27</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘O My Beloved –<br>I lose myself in the world’s distracting multiplicity, <br>yet cannot find the One in my restless mind –<br>I am in a desert place, a place of desolation… ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Beloved said<br>see the reeds, gently swaying like swooning dervishes<br>on the river bank, their feet in the water –<br>a man could sit for hours and watch them –<br>are they not beautiful? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See now the reed-flute, so carefully crafted, <br>waiting there to sound out sadness, love and joy –<br>is it not beautiful? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See the musician – how his eyes shine<br>with the music in his soul! <br>Is he not beautiful? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear the music that he plays –<br>telling its stories of life and death, of heaven and earth –<br>is it not beautiful? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now watch him as he plays<br>the music which is himself<br>on the flute made from the willing reed –<br>am I not the One you hear in this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am beautiful in My Oneness; <br>I am beautiful in My multiplicity; <br>Is there a greater miracle than this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you, the witness of all this in Me –<br>is there a greater miracle than yourself?</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=460070" data-title="In the spirit of Rumi - 27 de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘O My Beloved – I lose myself in the world’s distracting multiplicity, yet cannot find the One in my restless mind – I am in a desert place, a place of desolation… ’ My Beloved said see the reeds, gently swaying like swooning dervish..."></div> </div> </div>

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