Rumi ~
Discursiveness dies and gets put in the grave.
This contemplative joy does not.
This present thirst is your intelligence,
not the back-and-forth, mercurial brightness.
Scholarly knowledge is a vertigo,
an exhausted famousness.
Listening is better.
Rumi ~
This is how a human being can change :
There's a worm addicted
to eating grape leaves.
Suddenly, he wakes up,
call it grace, whatever, something wakes him,
and he's no longer a worm.
He's the entire vineyard,
and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks,
a growing wisdom and joy
that doesn't need
to devour.
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