One

Your spirit is mingled with mine,
as wine is with water;
whatever touches you touches me.
In all the stations of the soul you are I.

Mansur al-Hallaj (Persia, 9th century)

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty

and frightened. Don't open the door to the study

and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi