<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460973" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Spirit of Rumi,31-The Swan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How beautiful the white swan, <br>gliding effortlessly, it seems, <br>the sunlight shining on those feathers<br>protecting its skin and body better<br>than do clothes protect a man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">White as if to proclaim God’s beauty mov ing<br>on the waters, like the first day of Creation, <br>it dips its carefully constructed neck so elegantly<br>to find its invisible food…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while invisibly too, under the surface, <br>its legs paddle hard and fast…<br>Who would dare to call the swan<br>a hypocrite because of this! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In India they call the saints<br>who seem to glide so effortlessly<br>through life, glide across our gaze<br>so that for a moment, we would be them…<br>call them Paramahansa, great swan..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who knows how hard a swan<br>finds its life, moving against a fierce current, <br>lifting its huge body into the air, <br>knowing direction more clearly than any man…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who knows how hard a saint<br>works invisibly all the time, has worked, <br>will work, eternally… for us, <br>watching on the river-bank of life<br>the river, itself yearning for the sea, <br>to lose itself in the vast harbour of the waters…</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=460973" data-title="In the Spirit of Rumi,31-The Swan de Michael Shepherd" data-description="How beautiful the white swan, gliding effortlessly, it seems, the sunlight shining on those feathers protecting its skin and body better than do clothes protect a man! White as if to proclaim God’s beauty mov ing on the waters, like the firs..."></div> </div> </div>

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