Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Not Here

Not Here



There's courage involved if you want
to become truth. 

There is a broken- open place in a lover. 


Where are those qualities of bravery and
sharp compassion in this group?  What's the
use of old and frozen thought? 

I want a howling hurt.  This is not a treasury
where gold is stored; this is for copper.


We alchemists look for talent that
can heat up and change. 


Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back,
well-enough getting by?  Not here.



From The Translation of Rumi
by Coleman Barks