weeds and refuse...

"Cast away your existence entirely,
for it is nothing but weeds and refuse.

Go, clear out your heart's chamber;
arrange it as the abiding-place of the Beloved.

When you go forth, He will come in,
and to you, with self discarded,
He will unveil His beauty."


Mahmud Shabistari (1250? - 1340)
from _The Secret Rose Garden_
Translated by Florence Lederer / Edited by David Fideler