For this moment
Behold the body, born of dust–how perfect it has become!
Why should you fear its end?When were you ever made less by dying?
When you pass beyond this human form,no doubt you will become an angeland soar through the heavens!
But don’t stop there.Even heavenly bodies grow old.
Pass again from the heavenly realmand plunge into the ocean of Consciousness.Let the drop of water that is youbecome a hundred mighty seas.
But do not think that the drop alonebecomes the Ocean–the Ocean, too, becomes the drop!
-Rumi (From “A Garden Beyond Paradise”, translated by Coleman Barks)
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