Light Breeze of Spirit...

As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle,
consider the body a robe
you wear.

When you meet someone you love, do you kiss their clothes?

Search out
who's inside.

Union with God is sweeter than body comforts.

We have hands and feet
different from these.

Sometimes in dream we see them.

That is not
illusion.

It's seeing truly.

You do have a spirit body;

don't dread leaving the
physical one.

Sometimes someone feels this truth so strongly
that he or she can live in
mountain solitude totally refreshed.

The worried, heroic
doings of men and women seem weary
and futile to dervishes enjoying the light breeze of spirit.


From Soul of Rumi
by Coleman Barks