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Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
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Where, for one seed you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath, the divine wind?
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You have been fearful of being absorbed
in the ground, or drawn up by the air.
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Now your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean, where it came from.
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This giving up is not a repenting.
It is a deep honoring of yourself.
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When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly for God's sake.
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Don't postpone it. Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching will find this.
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A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder, and become yours.
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~ Rumi
translation by Coleman Barks
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