Sunday, February 7, 2010

To Become A Rose Garden



Seeing a man who was tilling the earth,
a fool, unable to control himself, cried out,
"Why are you ruining this soil?"
"Fool," said the man, "leave me alone:
try to recognize the difference
between tending the soil and wasting it.
How will this soil become a rose garden
until it is disturbed and overturned?"

... Mathnawi IV: 2341-2345, Mevlana Rumi

  

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