If you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you're not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you'll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love's confusing joy.
Notes
Excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks.
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enlightening
what an uplifting reminder of our heart's true and only desire, the desire for Love.
maa

