Moving Water

Moving Water

When you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When actions come from another section,

the feeling disappears. 

Don't let others lead you.  They may be

blind, or worse, vultures.

Reach for the rope of God.

And what is that?

Putting aside self-will.

Because of willfulness people sit in jail,

the trapped bird's wings are tied,

fish sizzle in the skillet.

The anger of police is willfulness.

You've seen a magistrate inflict possible punishment.

Now see the inivisible.  If you could

leave your selfishness, you would see

how you've been torturing your soul.

We are born and live inside black water in a well.

How could we know what an open field

of sunlight is?    Don't insist on going

where you think you want to go.  Ask the

way to the spring.  Your living pieces will form

a harmony.

There is a moving palace that floats in the air

with balconies and clear water flowing

through, infinity everywhere, yet contained

under a single tent.

~Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi~