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Any Lifetime

Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
The water that pollutes you is poison;
The poison that purifies you is water.

Notes

Excerpt from Rumi, 'Thief of Sleep' translated by by Shahram Shiva

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  • poetryality Moderators member
    November 1, 2005
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    Four lines that could change the mind-set of the world if so many were not asleep. WAKE UP! Profound and not vedrbose! This is knowledge personified.

  • jonosss
    October 31, 2005
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    very powerful, i love it