' The Heart Rises '...

We are a haystack, the wheat entangled
with the hay;

Through the reviving wind, disentangle
the wheat from the hay,

Let the sorrow go to the sorrow, the joy
to the joy,

Let the mud go to the mud, and the heart
rise to heaven.


- Rumi
Muriel Maufroy
Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi
Sanyar Press - London, 1997