Thursday, May 23, 2013
Infinite Sea--Poem by Rumi
Infinite Sea
Love is an infinite Sea whose skies are a bubble of foam.
Know that it is the waves of Love that turn the wheels of Heaven,
Without Love, nothing in the world would have life.
How is an inorganic thing transformed into a plant?
How are plants sacrificed to become rich with spirit?
How is spirit sacrificed to become Breath,
One scent of which is potent enough to make Mary pregnant?
Every single atom is drunk on this Perfection and runs towards It
And what does this running secretly say but "Glory be to God!"
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)
