Now, must we not be alone?

Now, must we not be alone?  At present we are not alone - we are merely a bundle of influences.  We are the result of all kinds of influences - social, religious, economic. hereditary, climatic.  Through all those influences, we try to find something beyond; and if we cannot find it, we invent it, and…

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Your first eyes

A lover has four streams inside,of water, wine, honey and milk.Find those in yourself and pay no attentionwhat so-and-so says about such-and-such.The rose does not careif someone calls it a thorn, or a jasmine.Ordinary eyes categorize human beings.That one is Zoroastrian. This one, Muslim.Walk instead with the other vision given you, your first eyes.Do not…

On children running through

I used to be shy.You made me sing. I used to refuse things at table.Now I shout for more wine.In somber dignity,I used to sit on my mat and pray.Now children run throughand make faces at me.~ Rumi

Those evenings

I miss those free evenings, just going around randomly on walks. Without a specific place to reach, nowhere to go, nowhere to reach, just walking around. Like a nomad, a wanderer.I miss those free evenings, on the roof, watching the sun set, the birds flying back home, the darkness slowly spreading, the stars starting to…