<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460074" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the spirit of Rumi - 36 - The rose told me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the garden, <br>I look at a rose and wonder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this rose<br>laughing with God? <br>Is it God’s smile, and message, to the earth? <br>Does it tell <br>Of God’s goodness, truth, and beauty? <br>Of God’s stillness? Peace? and silence? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if you gazed at it long enough<br>and carefully enough, <br>perhaps with a laugh or smile, <br>in stillness, peace, and silence, <br>would it tell you everything<br>that God would have you know? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For even if you are<br>a cynic, locked into your own mind<br>by your own key<br>and say, oh, it’s just<br>savage, ruthless nature, competing<br>with all the other flowers, for the bees –<br>for nothing but its own selfish ends -<br>you must admit<br>that Whoever allowed, invented, made, decreed<br>the laws for the construction of<br>such complex, simple beauty (which a bee may never know?) <br>is pretty cool.</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=460074" data-title="In the spirit of Rumi - 36 - The rose told me de Michael Shepherd" data-description="In the garden, I look at a rose and wonder Is this rose laughing with God? Is it God’s smile, and message, to the earth? Does it tell Of God’s goodness, truth, and beauty? Of God’s stillness? Peace? and silence? Or if you gazed at it..."></div> </div> </div>

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