<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Spirit of Rumi 32-The Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O pilgrim on the path of life, <br>you have travelled far; <br>now you have come to rest<br>and make yourself a home; <br>and plant a garden there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You measured out the plot of land, <br>designed it with your love, <br>laid precious stones along its paths, <br>planted trees for shade, <br>beneath them, marbled seats; and<br>roses red as heart’s red blood, or<br>white as purity; scented as all beauty veiled; <br>among the roses, jasmine, iris, lily, honeysuckle; <br>and in the evening, night’s pale flowers that yield<br>all the scented charms of cooling dusk; <br>and in the centre, a fountain plashing, <br>ever different, ever the same, <br>to be the token of your resting soul..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now you build a wall around it, <br>stone by stone. Two things<br>I ask of you, O faithful one: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">make an arched gate within the wall<br>that you may not make your neighbour envious; <br>where you may invite him to join you, <br>that neighbour who is yourself disguised..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as you lay each stone<br>to guard your peace from fox and wolf, <br>remember - that a paradise with walls<br>is but a parable, a paradigm, <br>for that true paradise which knows no walls; <br>rest there, traveller.</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=460970" data-title="In the Spirit of Rumi 32-The Garden de Michael Shepherd" data-description="O pilgrim on the path of life, you have travelled far; now you have come to rest and make yourself a home; and plant a garden there. You measured out the plot of land, designed it with your love, laid precious stones along its paths, plante..."></div> </div> </div>

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