To Sit Apart

“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.”

"What I most want
is to spring out of this personality,
then to sit apart from that leaping.
I’ve lived too long where I can be reached."

~ Both by Rumi (1207 - 1273) ~

~ And this from Kabir (1440 - 1518) ~

"If you circumambulated every holy shrine
in the world ten times,
it would not get you to heaven
as quick as controlling your anger."

Notre-Dame de Paris ~ 2002

Love & Justice, Both Blind

The arc of history is long
but it tends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Look what happens to the scale
when love holds it:
it stops working.

Kabir

Full Quotation:

"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure
by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

Theodore Parker

PS. If only justice were as plentiful as beauty:

FAIR AND UNFAIR

The beautiful is fair. The just is fair.
Yet one is commonplace and one is rare,
One everywhere, one scarcely anywhere.

So fair unfair a world. Had we the wit
To use the surplus for the deficit,
We'd make a fairer fairer world of it.

Robert Francis, 1901 - 1987